I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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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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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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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 now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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