I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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