Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEI do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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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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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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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And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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