There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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I 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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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