I’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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