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.
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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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 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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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’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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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