There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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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 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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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