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.
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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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’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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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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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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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