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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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