That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEIt’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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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’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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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