I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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