The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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“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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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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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’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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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