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.
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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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 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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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 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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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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