You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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 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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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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