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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 now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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’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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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 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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