If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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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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“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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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