I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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