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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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“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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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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’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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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