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 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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The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.
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I’m very grateful for it. But at the same time, it’s not a subculture-y thing anymore; it’s something that’s in the New York Times and the New Yorker.
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There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be, how immoral their characters can be.
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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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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 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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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters’ thoughts and realizations.
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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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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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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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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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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.
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You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites.
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