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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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“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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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’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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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 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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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