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 TOMINEThat 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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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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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 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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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 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 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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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’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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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