Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhereas 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’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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 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.
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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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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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