But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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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“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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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