Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 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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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’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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