You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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It’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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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