But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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’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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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 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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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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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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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