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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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