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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 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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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