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.
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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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 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’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’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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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope that, you know, it’s a big effort these days. So I often write back.
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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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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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