Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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“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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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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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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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’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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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