Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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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“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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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