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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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“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 very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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’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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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