That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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 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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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