For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
ADRIAN TOMINEIt’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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.
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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 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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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