Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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’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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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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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 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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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