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Adrian Tomine

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.
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Annoying Book Holdout Making Probably Publisher Remaining Version
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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Attitude Audience Different Life Point Relationship Totally Whole
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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Book Commerce Due Ghetto Media Partially World
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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Effort Envelope Going People Stamp Writing
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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Comic Excited Forward Friend Going Great Interesting Letter Looking More Reading
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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Diversity Done Excited Finding General Hunger Playground Publisher Really
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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Evolution Happened Intangible Lot Term Thinking Way
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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Artist Bad Eccentric Longer Once Outsider Sad Safe Thing Think Truly
There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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Definitely Lot Progress Recently Statement
“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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Comic Easier Explain Illustrator Living Magazine People Tell
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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Art Difference Involved Music Real Sense Single Time Work World Younger
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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Character Criticism Disliking Think Thinking
Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Action Ballon Existed Narration never Realization Showy Some Sort
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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Balck Comic Doing might Riches Route
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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