The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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