Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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And 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.
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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’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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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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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’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 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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 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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