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.
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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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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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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, 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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