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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 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 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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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Comic Easier Explain Illustrator Living Magazine People Tell
You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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