But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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