I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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.
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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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