Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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 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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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Look, there’s no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years.
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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 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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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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 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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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No one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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