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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThat 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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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’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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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