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got a lot of happy e-mails. And there was one strip that caused a paper in Tennessee
to freak out. They thought I was showing too much nudity. And it was no frontal
or anything. I get that a lot, ‘Can’t you show more?’ But
that paper wanted less.
Do you ever feel pressure to conform
to the Joe Phillips “club boy” aesthetic?
I feel like some of my characters fit into
that. My whole thing when I started was to show more than just the “club
boy” look. But I wanted to do more than that, because there’s more
than that out there. I wanted to show that there are different types of gay
people — postal workers, firefighters — just to show a full range.
I do tend to show more average guys, and I think I’m going to get more
into that. I’ve been focused on guys in their 20s and 30s, but I want
to start showing more guys in other age ranges. As far as Joe Phillips, I love
looking at that stuff, it’s very cool. But I’d rather show what
we haven’t seen before, to try and break some boundaries.
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