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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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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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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 this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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