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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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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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