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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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“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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 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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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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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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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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