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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
Adrian Tomine
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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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