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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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 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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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