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.
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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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