The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEIf you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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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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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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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