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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 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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