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 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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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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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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It’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.
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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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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