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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.

Adrian Tomine

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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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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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.
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Annoying Book Holdout Making Probably Publisher Remaining Version
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 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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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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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“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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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