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.
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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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’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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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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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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“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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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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