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I must have been 3 years old or less, and I remember paging through these comics, trying to figure out the stories. I couldn't read the words, so I made up my own stories.
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I was a very fearful little kid, and I would always see the worst in everything. The glass was half-empty. I would see people kissing, and I would think one was trying to bite the other.
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I have this certain vision of the way I want my comics to look; this sort of photographic realism, but with a certain abstraction that comics can give. It's kind of a fine line.
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You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.
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When you see somebody who's got a complaining personality, it usually means that they had some vision of what things could be, and they're constantly disappointed by that. I think that would be the camp that I would fall into - constantly horrified by the things people do.
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It's embarrassing to be involved in the same business as the mainstream comic thing. It's still very embarrassing to tell other adults that I draw comic books - their instant, preconceived notions of what that means.
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I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.
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I don't read much of anything online.
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I'm not opposed to comics on the Internet. It's just not interesting to me.
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I'm a fan of parchment and wood pulp.
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Working on movies made me realize how fluid the medium of film was.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid.
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I think that's what we're all most terrified about: that we'll just die and disappear and we'll leave no trace.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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People seem to need a likable protagonist more than ever.
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I'm more interested in characters who are a little difficult.
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I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.
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I was 30 before I made a living that was not embarrassing.
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For me, the whole process involves envisioning this book in my head as I'm working.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I originally just wanted to be an artist.
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Superman's always chasing after someone who just mugged somebody, and I've never seen that happen in my life.
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That'll be my claim to fame: My grandmother-in-law is the oldest iPad user!
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When I close my eyes to draw I always think Chicago in 1975.
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But I enjoy the opportunity to use swear symbols.
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When people get things for free, they tend to not take them as seriously.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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Comics seldom move me the way I would be moved by a novel or movie.
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I tend to be the type who is overly polite and sort of ingratiating to other people.
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