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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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“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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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