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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 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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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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