“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.
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 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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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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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.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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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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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