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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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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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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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