But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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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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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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