That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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“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 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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 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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