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norree asked: Some of your opinions on authors/historical figures are pretty harsh (not that they're wrong) have you ever since changed one? As in, do you ever look back at a comic and think, 'I don't feel the same way anymore'? I love your books, by the way. : )

Yes, for sure! But I think what happens more is that I realized that I would make a joke or a gag comic about one person, and it would be about a specific thing, and I would be trying to get the humour out of it, so it would needle at this one thing.  To a reader, this might look like I only had one opinion about the subject, and that was it.  One joke, one comment, one opinion, no nuance.  If the joke was a crass one, then even more do.  So I started trying to put more and more into the comics, to present a more rounded version of the subject.  Where before, I’d write and draw one gag, now you see me do four to eight.  That’s how things are these days, at least.

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