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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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’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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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 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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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.
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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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