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Jhonen Vasquez

"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."

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"Goth culture, as mired in the past as it is, even it goes through changes, so Goth when I was growing up is not what it is now. When I think of Goth culture as it is at the moment I think of mall culture."

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Akshay Vasu

"It is proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way."

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Akshay Vasu

"The music we listen to may not define who we are. But it's a damn good start."

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Akshay Vasu

"....And above all, it is your civilization, it is you. However much you hate it or laugh at it, you will never be happy away from it for any length of time."

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Akshay Vasu

"A people that doesn't live at the center of the world, as defined and described by its poets and storytellers, is in a bad way. The center of the world is where you live fully, where you know how things are done, how things are done rightly, done well."

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Akshay Vasu

"In Russia you learn patience," said Ivan. "In America you learn action."

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Akshay Vasu

"The problem with our culture is we cling to so many different truths. Yet, the truths that we cling to also depend on our point of view. Maybe, the journey to a truth that can be free of hatred, bias and injustice requires a journey of the soul to see all view points."

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Akshay Vasu

"Americans have an inability to relax into sheer pleasure.Ours is an entertainment seeking-nation, but not necessarily a pleasure-seeking one....This is the cause of that great sad American stereotype- the overstressed executive who goes on vacation, but who cannot relax."

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Akshay Vasu

"Off this fucking predictable soap opera, this will happen now, then that, then that and you say that you are christian and you start watching series of Turkey people which believe in a very different god so far god of hell - Allah..."

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"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."

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Akshay Vasu

"I figured this guy was a fair dinkum Australian. The type of guy that worked the land all day, cracked open a beer or two at night and called girls 'sheilas'."

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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
"At this very moment I'm behind on a compilation that Slave Labor is doing for Free Comic Book Day."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I'm just doing little bits and pieces for other magazines right now."

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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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Jhonen Vasquez
"All the power to them but I'm not interested in making yet another show that looks like some other show."

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Jhonen Vasquez
"I don't particularly dislike any kind of person that might be reading my stuff. They like it and that's cool, but I don't do the work for any kind of group in particular, except for hobos, who just plain kick ass and light up 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
"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
"In certain ways it is incredibly damaging considering the stuff I did before certainly wasn't for kids."

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