And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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’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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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