Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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