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.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 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 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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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