I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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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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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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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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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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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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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