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.
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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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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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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 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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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