Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEIf 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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There 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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“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.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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The 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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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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