You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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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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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“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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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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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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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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