You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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