Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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