I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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