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"I think comics have far more potential than a lot of people realize."
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"It didn't take long to establish myself, as far as people thinking my work was good. They liked it from the start."
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"I really don't have a lot in common with the people who attend the Comic Con. It's like assuming that all people who write prose are the same."
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