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’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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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“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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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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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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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But 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.
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