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 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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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.
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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 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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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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“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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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