Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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.
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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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For 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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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