We're not trying to be deliberately frustrating, but we are laying the tracks for a mystery, and it's one that we have all figured out. We wanted this to be kind of like the way that Cliff [Chang] and I felt about the Cold War in the '80s when we were 12.

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My mom once told me that a good relationship isn't where the other person makes you feel better, but where they make you better.

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good-relationship feel-better mom

I have no imagination; I just steal from life and change the color. Then it's a comic book.

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color imagination book

Sure, this will probably end up being another in a long line of emotionally crippling misadventures...but let's try to have some fun along the way.

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fun trying long

To try and imagine that I'm another person is always going to be hard - whether I'm writing about a truck driver or someone who is gay, who's trans, who is of a different ethnicity or creed. But it would be boring if I always had to write about myself and my limited viewpoint.

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ethnicity gay writing

Every issue, the characters and I duke it out. They usually win.

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issues winning character

That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.

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budgets imagination

I mean, do you know what you get when you call a suicide hotline in New York city? A busy signal. Literally.

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suicide new-york mean

I like things that are weirdly imaginative and couldn't be real, but I also like stories that are recognizable and relatable.

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imaginative real stories

How is it possible that our parents lied to us?" "Lets see: Santa, the Tooth Fairy,the Easter bunny,um, God. You're the prettiest kid in school. This wont hurt a bit. Your face will freeze like that..." "Everythings going to be alright.

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easter hurt school

Comics are essentially films with fewer frames per second.

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fewer film

What cruel creatures men are. Our bodies tell us to love so many, but there's room in our hearts for so few.

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body heart men

I realized that for fantasy and science fiction, especially from my youth, white was the default. Luke Skywalker was in the lead, or even if you were a hobbit, you're going to be white. That was an extremely old-fashioned, obviously really narrow-minded way to look at things.

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white looks fiction

I'm really happiest living life 22 pages at a time and putting things in little boxes on pages.

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live-life pages littles

Life is mostly just learning how to lose.

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loses life-is

Violence is stupid. Even as a last resort, it only ever begets more of the same.

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lasts violence stupid

Immigration confuses and terrifies me, so why not try to write a comic and make some sense of it?

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immigration writing trying

They hurt you. You hurt 'em back. Or maybe it is the other way around. Whatever. Someday you might find a way to forgive each other. But it won't be like it used to 'cause that pain never really goes away.

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forgiving pain hurt

I start with something that makes me angry or confused, and then I write about it. It's a form of self-help.

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confused self writing

You'd never be able to convince someone to give you money to do a bilingual story where you're not translating half of it - you'd drive people crazy. But in comics, you can do whatever your heart desires.

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crazy heart people

I've never gotten anything but support and thanks from people for having diverse books.

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support book people