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.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd 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 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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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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 think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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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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That 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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