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 TOMINEWhen 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 there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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’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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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