You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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“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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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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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