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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.

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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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