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.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd 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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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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’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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 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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