I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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