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.
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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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“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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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