Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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’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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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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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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