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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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 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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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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