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.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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