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.
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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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 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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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“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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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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 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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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