There 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 TOMINEIf you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I’m also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn’t consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.
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I’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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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