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.
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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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I 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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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