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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on…

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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…

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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…

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The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the…

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Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if…

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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…

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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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I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was…

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

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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace.

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If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.'

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,…

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