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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.

Adrian Tomine

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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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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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.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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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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 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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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 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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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