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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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 not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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