There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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