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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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 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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“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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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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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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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