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Jhonen Vasquez

"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."

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"I'm definitely incredibly attracted to the aesthetic of what is typically deemed goth stuff, but. A lot of my experience growing up was in being around that kind of thing, and it's just what sinks into a person's brain."

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Asa Don Brown

"A misadventure is an act that has a safer, less self-detrimental, less interesting alternative. But you choose that act because you want to do something memorable and worthy of discussion."

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Asa Don Brown

"Life is a book. Read it. But do not forget to write yours."

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Asa Don Brown

"At least I can say I once worked a day on a tea plantation in Far North Queensland."

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Asa Don Brown

"Beyond these moments, she could hardly count the fumbling ministrations of boys in high school who, even to her senior prom, never went beyond sticky pleasantries. With one exception, it was just a sort of half-clothed handshake for bragging rights, none hers."

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Asa Don Brown

"Reality spilled out into the alley like water from an overfilled bowl - as sound, as smell, as image, as plea, as response."

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Asa Don Brown

"To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common."

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Asa Don Brown

"We live that we might have experience; that through it we might gain wisdom, compassion, faith, and inner strength."

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Asa Don Brown

"Failure is only an experience. Experience is the foundation of any success."

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Asa Don Brown

"Today's experience is necessary to equip you fully for the future."

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Asa Don Brown

"Experience comes from failure and success comes from experience. Today's pain will bring tomorrow's gain."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I don't want little kids reading my comics."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I love the show and a lot of what came out of it, like some of the people I met and got to work with, but those were truly some of the unhappiest days of my life."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"Because of the audience I get and the fact that these people aren't traditional comics buyers I don't think the comic industry looks at that and thinks that is a very respectable thing. I'm very used to it. I'm not the guy who wins awards and gets mentioned in magazines."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"It's sort of what the Johnny and Devi stories are about, the idea of always being a slave to something."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I got to draw monsters, robots and write funny stories. I loved doing that stuff and working with the actors. But it got to be less and less that stuff and more about trying to be everywhere and not being able to do one thing very enjoyably."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"After doing Johnny I wanted to just do something, I wouldn't say innocent, but to not have any care in the world. Lots of setups and horrible happenings but its funny."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"As I got farther and farther along in the series I did less and less preparation. I didn't use outlines or sketches. I just had a vague idea of what I wanted to tell and then the dialogue just came to me as I was inking the page."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"When I'm writing the book I'm laughing at just how overblown the characters seemed. How full of himself he seems. But I didn't get far enough in the series to really drive the joke of it home."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"But now I have a lot of little kids who watched Invader Zim whenever they could find it on television."

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