Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it’s nice to not have to dread introductions.
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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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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And now people even of our parents’ generation are familiar with the term “graphic novel,” which is kind of amazing.
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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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There’s been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn’t make a definitive statement about this.
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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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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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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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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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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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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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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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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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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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’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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