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.
ADRIAN TOMINEWhereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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 if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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