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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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