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Paul Pope has drawn and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century .

A career-spanning exhibition of his work just opened at the Philippe Labaune Gallery in New York .

Pope is reemerging at a fraught time for the comics industry and creativity in general.

He said he isn’t ruling out taking advantage of AI (“any tool that works is good”).

In your essay “ Weapons of Choice ,” you talk about all these different tools you use, the brushes and pens, the Sumi ink.

Has your working style been pretty consistent, pretty analog, for your entire career? I did start incorporating Photoshop for coloring and textures, kind of late to the game.

Do you think of ink on paper as objectively better, or it just happens to be how you work?.

Cartoonist says he's skeptical of AI , but doesn't want to rule out using it where it's useful.

He says he’s less concerned about having some random person create some image based on one of his drawings.

The real question is killer robots and surveillance and surveillance, he says.