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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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“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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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’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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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