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And 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.

Adrian Tomine

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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Flirtatious Myself Point Positively Reflect Trying Work
Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Action Ballon Existed Narration never Realization Showy Some Sort
“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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Comic Easier Explain Illustrator Living Magazine People Tell
I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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Access Character Direct Impression People Realization Some Unless
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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Addresses Along Email Internet
I’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.
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Annoying Book Holdout Making Probably Publisher Remaining Version
But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Comic Kind Pornography Used
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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Anymore Country Grateful Same Subculture Thing Time
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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Effort Envelope Going People Stamp Writing
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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Attitude Country Creativity Getting Kid More Raise Rare Something Valuable
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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Changing Diaper Guy Playground Window
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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Evolution Happened Intangible Lot Term Thinking Way
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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Effort Produce Putting Something Taking Trying World
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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Book Commerce Due Ghetto Media Partially World
You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Down Feel Sometimes Start Very Weighted
And 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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Around Artist Business Creator Industry Money More Pushed Safe Haven Sort Thinking Visibility

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