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 TOMINEThere were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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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 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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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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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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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’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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“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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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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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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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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