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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.

Adrian Tomine

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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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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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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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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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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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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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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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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