The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEEspecially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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 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 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 TOMINEBut 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.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe 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.
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