Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I’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.
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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 experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I 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.
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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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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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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, 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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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