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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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I 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.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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