No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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