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 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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“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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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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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 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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 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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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’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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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