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.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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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I do think it’s getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable.
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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.
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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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