Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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 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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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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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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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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