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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI think there’s this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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