Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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