Increasingly, I think you see more diversity, much more, than you did certainly when I started writing Kavalier & Clay. There has been a lot of great work done by queer creators and creators of color in the past 20 years in the graphic novel field, and in mainstream comics too. There's more representation, unquestionably, and there's more openness, and there's more liberty on the part of creators to tell queer stories, to look at the full spectrum of human sexuality through comics, the way it is also much more possible to do in other popular media than it used to be. I think the situation more closely resembles the situation in other popular media, for better or worse. How much do you feel like that has changed?
Here you have a very affectionate and egalitarian friendship between Sam, who is gay, and his straight best friend, Joe, which I don't recall seeing much before 2000 in mainstream fiction. You'd already written two novels with queer characters, or men questioning their sexuality - The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys.
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