I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
ADRIAN TOMINEWho 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEThe 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
ADRIAN TOMINE“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.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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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