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.
ADRIAN TOMINEJust in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.
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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 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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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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“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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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