You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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“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.
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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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 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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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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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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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Who was trying to be cool by writing about young people and a certain kind of Bay Area culture that I was tangentially a part of.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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