I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINEI never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhen email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEI wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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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