Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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And 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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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