After reading all you've had to say about Dave Sim's Cerebus, it would be cool to see you take on a more epic scope with one of your many characters. Your world building, in my opinion, is far and away one of your greatest strengths particularly in the cas

Well thanks. I dunno if I have a “church and state” maybe it’s not comparable. I’ve been leaning more towards single graphic novel stories– the thing I’m working on now might end up around 200-300 pages. (I’m on page 92 today) 

I think Sim is deeply religious and certainly good at alienating the larger comic book scene. That recent cover he did that pissed off twitter brought up some interesting ideas –In recent years mainstream publishers are marketing some small percentage of books with the selling points of them being tied to queer characters or authors. Which I certainly think is a good thing– I like seeing the homie SIna Grace doing well with his Iceman– What I wonder  Is if there a way to satire the growing pains of inclusive comics in a way that wouldn’t get interpreted like the Sim cover was?  I wonder if because Sim has a bad reputation it casts it already in a certain light, or maybe the Sim cover actually crossed a line?–  (I’m leaning towards the former) 

I do worry that this all allows criticism or any satire to be categorised as being anti-gay. We’re in a messy time in history where there’s so many actually shitty and scary ideas gaining ground that it becomes too easy to assume someone is in line with those ideas .. 

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