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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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“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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