I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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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 do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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, 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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