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.
ADRIAN TOMINEI 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.
More Adrian Tomine Quotes
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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 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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“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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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 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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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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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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