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.
ADRIAN TOMINELook, 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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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