That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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’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 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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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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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