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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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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’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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