I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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“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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