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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.

Adrian Tomine

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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