Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 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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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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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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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 do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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