If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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