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Adrian Tomine
Drawn & Quarterly Adrian Tomine came up in the comics scene back when you established yourself by xeroxing and stapling mini-comics that you sold or gave away with the hope that you'd attract a publisher, who would then publish issues of your comic book. If people liked your single issues then at some point they'd be collected into trade paperbacks that smooched together the contents of between three and ten issues. Maybe your book would get mentioned in a mainstream magazine and then attract better sales. The path of alternative comics success has changed a lot in the past ten years. Around the early 2000s you'd walk around SPX or MoCCA and everyone would have mini comics and zines. Even successful artists would make them because they were immediate and easy. There is no standard path to comics success these days (which is not really success as most people would define it) but the mini-comic is pretty much obliterated and comics that are the shape and size of a standard comic book are disappearing too.
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