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" All through my comics career, I was always trying to reinvent the form. "
Career
Always
Trying
" And what better way to reinvent the form than to toss virtually 99% of everything that's been done with it and start with a brand-new canvas, reinvent it from the ground up? Digital comics gave me the opportunity to do that, and producing things digitally gave me the opportunity to do that. "
Better
Start
Opportunity
" I don't think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be. "
Much
Think
Potential
" If a comic comes out on the scene and it's really knock-out brilliant, the community is pretty good about getting the word about good newcomers. "
Community
Word
Pretty
" If you think about it, for any kind of content on the web, the natural price per unit of these things should be under a dollar. "
Price
Web
You
" I had a lot of ideas on how comics worked and pretty early on I had this idea that it would be fun to explain them in comics form. "
Early
Pretty
Ideas
" It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career. "
Possible
Drawing
Career
" It would take a lifetime to read all the webcomics published in one year. "
Published
Lifetime
Year
" I've always been very forward-looking, and it was actually kind of difficult to turn my gaze backwards to look at comics history. "
Difficult
Always
Look
" My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. "
Kind
Picture
Mind
" My dad was an inventor, and I think I've always had a rosy view of technology, or at least its potential. "
View
Rosy
Think
" My first influences were superhero artists. "
Influences
First
Superhero
" The notion of getting under the hood and explaining how something works, that's fairly familiar territory to me. "
Hood
Me
Something
" There's a very big part of me that just wants to take all of comics history and toss it on the bonfire. I'd sort of like to get on to the future. "
Like
Just
History
" Today, comics is one of the very few forms of mass communication in which individual voices still have a chance to be heard. "
Individual
Chance
Communication
" Webcomics are much bigger than any one scene can circumscribe. "
Much
Any
Bigger
" When you're free of editorial control, you owe it to yourself to obtain feedback from friends and readers. Some take those criticisms to heart and incorporate it into their work, and some ignore them. "
Friends
Yourself
Work
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