For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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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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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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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’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 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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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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