The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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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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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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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