I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen 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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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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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 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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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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There 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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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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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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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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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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