The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEJust 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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“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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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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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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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’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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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