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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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