If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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 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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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’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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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