When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEJust 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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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 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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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 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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