But 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 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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