I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
ADRIAN TOMINEWho 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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