black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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.

Related Topics

Around Artist Business Creator Industry Money More Pushed Safe Haven Sort Thinking Visibility

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Certain Cool Culture Kind Part People Tangentially Trying Work Writing Young
And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Amazing Even Familiar Generation Graphic Novel Parent People
But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Ate Comic Hand Lunch Mini Read
No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Balck Comic Doing might Riches Route
I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Avoid People Thought Wanted
I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Book Business Card Hand Home Out Website
There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Definitely Lot Progress Recently Statement
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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Effort Envelope Going People Stamp Writing
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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Art Difference Involved Music Real Sense Single Time Work World Younger
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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Artist Bad Eccentric Longer Once Outsider Sad Safe Thing Think Truly
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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Caught Guy Idea Liked People Really Stretch Time Worl Writing Young
You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Down Feel Sometimes Start Very Weighted
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Comic Living Parent Publishing Started Still
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.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Choosing Impediment Impression Man Number People Progress
I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Character Criticism Disliking Think Thinking
If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINE

Changing Diaper Guy Playground Window

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes