That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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