Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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 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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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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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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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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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