You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEI wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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