Adrian Tomine Quotes

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, People, Stories

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

  Adrian Tomine

  Reading, Pages, Comic

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Artist, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Country, Attitude, Creativity

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Real, Moving, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Black And White, Years, Issues

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Responsibility, Style, Stories

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being held up as something to aspire to and as something that's respectable for adults to read.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Ghetto, Media

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I never go home and take out those business cards and go to those websites. But if there was a mini-comic here in my hand, I'd read it while I ate my lunch. I'm also probably one of the few remaining holdouts who hasn't consented to making the e-book versions of all my work, which is annoying to some of my publishers.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Home, Hands

  Source: therumpus.net

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Trying, Asian

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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

  Book, Achievement, Nervous

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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

  Teenager, Water, Special

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Littles, Ifs

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

  Adrian Tomine

  Ambition, Reaching, Wanted

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Attitude, Different, Audience

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of a compliment.

  Adrian Tomine

  Character, Thinking, Criticism

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, Evolution, Term

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Parent, Comic, Publishing

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• Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.

  Adrian Tomine

  Kids, Judging, Endeavor

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Ambition, Guy, Window

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Role Models, Trying

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Feel Good, Stories

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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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  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural, more of a direct expression in the way that a painter would put his strokes on canvas.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Expression, People

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Years, Stories, May

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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