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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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’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, 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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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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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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