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.
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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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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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 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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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