No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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 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 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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 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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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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