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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThat partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEither thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 TOMINEAnd now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINE“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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEI wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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