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.
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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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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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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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