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.
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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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’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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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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 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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