But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
ADRIAN TOMINEI wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 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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