That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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’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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 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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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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