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.
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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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