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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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 sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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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