I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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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 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’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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, 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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