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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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