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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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