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 TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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