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 TOMINEWho 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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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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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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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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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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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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