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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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