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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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’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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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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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’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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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