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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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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
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Sacramento
California
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I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see in our culture, in our commercial culture.
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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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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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It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
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I get nervous about the effect that the high speed of everything will have on creativity. It's already sad for me to see that a lot of young aspiring cartoonists are putting stuff on the web, doing animation on the computer rather than making zines or mini-comics, which seem to be going the way of the dinosaur.
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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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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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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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When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD players and TVs and all these things to produce distractions for them, and I think it would be hard to find the time to create something. I think that's really changing something about adolescence.
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