- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never really thought of myself as an Asian-American cartoonist, any more than I thought of myself as a cartoonist who wears glasses.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me.
- Nov 07, 2020
I hated 'Dilbert.'
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
- Peaceful
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- Nov 07, 2020
My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that.
- Different
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- Nov 07, 2020