If you’re changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
ADRIAN TOMINEI’m getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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But my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was a young guy.
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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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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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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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 loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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 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 wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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