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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 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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 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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“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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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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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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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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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’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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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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