Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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