I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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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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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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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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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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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 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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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 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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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