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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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