Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEAnd now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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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The 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.
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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 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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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