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.
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.
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Just 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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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.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 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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“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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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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