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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.

Adrian Tomine

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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 think in terms of getting new artists who are not in that sort of stereotypical teenage boy demographic there's been a lot of progress recently. And I shouldn't make a definitive statement about this, but my impression is that the main impediment to progress in that regard is the number of people who are choosing to make a go of it.
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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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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 it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
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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 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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It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
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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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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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If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.
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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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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 certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.
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I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or how I plan it out.
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And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with a stack of pamphlets people had made to show off their work, and now I just leave with business cards where people have the URL to their websites.
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A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models when I was twelve or thirteen.
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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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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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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, to its credit, this is one of the last forms of popular entertainment that I don't sense to be discriminatory in any way. I think there's this general hunger for greater diversity, where publishers are really excited about finding different voices than what has been done.
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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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