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 TOMINEI think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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“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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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