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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINELook, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
ADRIAN TOMINEThat partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEJust in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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