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.
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 get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I’d read it while I ate my lunch.
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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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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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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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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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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 in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic.
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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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