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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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’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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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