Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 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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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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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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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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