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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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’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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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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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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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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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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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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 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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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