Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 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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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 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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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