Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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 this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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’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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