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 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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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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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“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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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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’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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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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