Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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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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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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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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’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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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“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.
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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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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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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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