And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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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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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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But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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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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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