There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
ADRIAN TOMINEThat 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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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 a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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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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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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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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I 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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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