And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out. And I do think it's sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing. But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.

I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.

Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.