Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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 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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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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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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 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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