Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINELook, 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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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