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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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