When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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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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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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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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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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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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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