I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
ADRIAN TOMINEIf 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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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 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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