When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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’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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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