I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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.
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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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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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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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“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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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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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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I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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