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 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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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’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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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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 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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