I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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