I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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, 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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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 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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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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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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