And with this sort of increased visibility, there’s more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the business as a creator, who sticks with it, and who gets pushed out.
ADRIAN TOMINE“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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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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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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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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