But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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