Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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