Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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.
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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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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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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 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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“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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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