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.
ADRIAN TOMINEWho 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.
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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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 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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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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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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