I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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