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.
ADRIAN TOMINE- 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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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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
ADRIAN TOMINEUnderground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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.
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.
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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.
ADRIAN TOMINELook, 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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
ADRIAN TOMINEI started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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.
ADRIAN TOMINENo one would get into doing a black-and-white comic because they thought it might be a route to riches.
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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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And I do think it’s sort of too bad that what once was a safe haven for truly eccentric, outsider artists is no longer that thing.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’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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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.
ADRIAN TOMINEFor 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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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.
ADRIAN TOMINEWho 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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
ADRIAN TOMINEThere were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
ADRIAN TOMINEYou start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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