That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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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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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 a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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“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’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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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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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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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