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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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“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 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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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