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.
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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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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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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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 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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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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.
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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 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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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