When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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“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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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