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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.

Adrian Tomine

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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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’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.
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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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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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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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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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