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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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 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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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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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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“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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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