But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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 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.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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“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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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