“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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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 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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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