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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.

Adrian Tomine

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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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