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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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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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 sense a real difference in my work from the time I was younger and single and more involved in the world of music and going out to bars and all that.
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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.
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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 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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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