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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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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“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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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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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 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 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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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