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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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’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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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 this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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