I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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