I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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’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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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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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