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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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