And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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And 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.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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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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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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