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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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“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 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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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’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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