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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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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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It’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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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