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 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’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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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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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 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 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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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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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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Whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that’s respectable for adults to read.
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