Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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