When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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 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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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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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’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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