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.
ADRIAN TOMINEIt’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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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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.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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