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 TOMINEThat partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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 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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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