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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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 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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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