Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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 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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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