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“After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.”

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“I promise-ted I'd care up for him downwise 'til the tailend of time.”

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“And there you have it, Your Highness. Turning a jug of water into gold.”

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I think there is some overlap in terms of artistic desires and Christian desires.

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