Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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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