The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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I 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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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