Adrian Tomine Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Stories Quotes

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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For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child.

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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

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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."

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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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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 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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If something's a little weird, it's Kafkaesque.

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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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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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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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For me, like, the more interesting a letter is I just get more excited and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic.

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I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and just say, "Don't think of me as an Asian cartoonist. Just think of me as a cartoonist."

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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 do think it's getting more and more rare in this country to raise a kid with the attitude that creativity is something valuable. The idea of trying to make the effort to produce something, to put something out into the world, rather than just taking in all the stuff the world's putting out at you.

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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 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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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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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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Basically, I know there's no turning back the clock, and it's sort of pointless to mourn what has passed, but I don't know if the alternatives now really replicate the learning experience that I had, in terms of what I gained from making mini-comics. There were certain components of it that are completely gone because of being able to just throw stuff up on your blog the minute you're done with it.

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