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.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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 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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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