I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters – which, again, I take as something of a compliment.
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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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes – the outsider.
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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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That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto.
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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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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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I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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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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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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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But not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it’s not pornography, etc.
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Either thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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The loner – it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I’m married, or I have kids. That’s certainly happened to me.
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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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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn’t an issue.
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