I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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, 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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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’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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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