Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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.
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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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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