And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 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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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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