And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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I think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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“What you do for a living?” It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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