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“I've never been good at self-promotion. And my URL is really obscure. And for years and years, there was nothing about me on my website.”

Quote by David Rees

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David Rees, born on June 22, 1972, is a renowned cartoonist known for his unique style of satire and humor, which has won him a wide audience. more

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“Any working cartoonist will tell you this, anybody who's working in a creative field: at some point, it's a job. You have deadlines. I think, for over a year, I refused to make them for publications, because I only wanted to make them when I wanted to make them. But at some point, I was like, "This is crazy, you have an opportunity to be a professional cartoonist.”

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“I would make a comic for Rolling Stone every two weeks, because they're biweekly. And then I would make weekly comics for my weekly papers. It was on two parallel tracks. And then they all got collected in a book.”

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“Obviously, I never had to sketch anything out. To me, that was the appeal of working with clip art, working digitally. You make it and it's done.”

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“I just wanted a really simple, dramatic way so that fans, people who were reading my comic, would be like, "This is something different." Just to flag it, almost.”

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“I hate self-publishing; it's a real drag and it takes up a lot of space.”

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“I had good relationships with stores. And I was like, "All right, I'll self-publish it. But I'm only going to do 1,000."”

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“The way you make money is to do something you don't like to do. And that's how you know you're a virtuous person.”

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“I felt really conflicted about making money off stuff that's creatively satisfying.”

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“I'm not sure running the press has changed how I write (though perhaps it has in ways I can't see), but it has certainly changed my relationship to how books get made.”

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“I can be a fairly hands-on editor, and when I'm editing someone I feel intensely invested in that writer and her work. I love helping to shape a book, and I feel very privileged to get to do that with writers I'm excited about. I think doing that work for the past six years has changed me, and it better prepared me for the questions and suggestions.”

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