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There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.

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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic; there's been a lot of progress recently. A…

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I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eye…

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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…

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I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and ju…

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

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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 t…

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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 h…

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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 busi…

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Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an …

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