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 TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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’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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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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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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