I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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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’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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