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I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all that. But I feel like my friends and family from California feel like I've totally become a New Yorker.
Adrian Tomine
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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
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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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It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when you were an alienated teenager.
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I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and expressive, but to do it in the most subtle, realistic way.
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Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. 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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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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You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some other medium.
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I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
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I get the impression from some people that unless they get direct access to characters' thoughts and realizations, either through thought balloons or narrations or some sort of showy action, then those thoughts and realizations never existed.
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Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, 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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