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I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.

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It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

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When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.

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There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

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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. 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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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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Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.

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I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.

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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. "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, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.

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There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.

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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've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.

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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, 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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For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

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I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, 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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I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

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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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I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

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