Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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’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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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