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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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“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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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