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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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 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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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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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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