When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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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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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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