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.
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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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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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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I 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.
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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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And 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.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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I 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.
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