If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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, 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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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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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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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