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 TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 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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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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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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