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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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