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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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