I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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“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 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 think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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 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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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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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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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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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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