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.
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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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“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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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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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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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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