“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.
ADRIAN TOMINE- But there are definitely pros and cons. You could also look at it as bringing in a more diverse crowd.
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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’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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If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINEIf 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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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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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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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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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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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 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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world’s putting out at you.
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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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It’s psychologically a weird experience to be so aware of the fact that the real time of your life is moving much faster than the fictional time you’re trying to depict.
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