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.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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