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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.
Adrian Tomine
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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
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Sacramento
California
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I've always been really impressed with some of the longer graphic novels and thought it would be really amazing if one day I could try something like that.
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I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was a different thing.
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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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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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I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a story that may or may not be any good.
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I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid doing what I thought people wanted me to do.
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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. You start to feel very weighted down sometimes.
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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 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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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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One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.
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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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It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
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I was very aware of the fact that there are a lot of comics out there that I love, because I've grown up my whole life reading comics and I know every little nuance of the language and all the implications.
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For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.
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When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.
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If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.
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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 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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I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.
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