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.
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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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For 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.
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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