But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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