I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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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’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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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