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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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 now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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