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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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