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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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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’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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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