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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.

Adrian Tomine

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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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’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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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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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 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’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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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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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 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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