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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.

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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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’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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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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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 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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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