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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

Adrian Tomine

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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 think there’s a lot of evolution that’s happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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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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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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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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“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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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