But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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“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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