You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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