The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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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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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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