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I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look at you in your room. That is totally like the telescreen from 1984. It's not sort of like it, it's not a lot like it, it is it. And the ability of the NSA to turn on your cell phone, even if it's powered down, and listen to you in your home - that's insane to me. People had been warning that 1984 was just around the corner. Well, it has arrived, and Snowden has proven that.

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I was reading through all these NSA programs that Snowden has revealed, and one of the ones that fascinated me was that smart TVs can be used to look…

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Life is incredibly short, yet we're always told that change takes time. For a race of mortals, dicking around just isn't acceptable.

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When I put together a graphic novel, I don't think about literary prose. I think about storytelling.

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For an ordinary citizen, what is the common interaction you have with a police officer? When they pull you over for speeding, or when they write you …

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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.

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That's what comics journalism does better than anything else: you can get a feeling of what it was like. Like Scott McCloud says, especially with a s…

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Most people don't know how to tell stories.

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If I had to rank my skills, I have a long way to go before I can write a good graphic novel.

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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.

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