Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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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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 think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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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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 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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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