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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.
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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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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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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Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.
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If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.
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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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There were certainly some people who wanted me to do a feel-good story that affirmed a lot of very commonly held beliefs.
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