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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither 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’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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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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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 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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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 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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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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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