“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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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