Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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 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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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