I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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