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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 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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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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