I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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’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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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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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“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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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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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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