“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.
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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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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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’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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