But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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