I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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’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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“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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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