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.
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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“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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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