“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.
ADRIAN TOMINEIt’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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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.
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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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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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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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