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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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 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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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