If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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 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.
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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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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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