But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
ADRIAN TOMINEBut there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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 never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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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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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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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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 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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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