There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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 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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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 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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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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