I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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I think, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don’t sense to be discriminatory in any way.
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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