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.
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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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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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“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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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