“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 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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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 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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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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I think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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 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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There were points at which I was trying to use my art to reflect positively on myself, to almost be flirtatious through the work.
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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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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 started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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