But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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 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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