Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 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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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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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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, 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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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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I sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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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