No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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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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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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