Adrian Tomine Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Creativity, Zines, Dinosaurs

  Source: therumpus.net

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• In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know seems to want to engage me on that topic, or convert me. I think there are a lot of people who just want to hear me embrace e-books or finally say, 'OK, I bought an iPad and it's awesome!" There are a lot of people who would get a kick out of it, that's for sure.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, Thinking, Ipads

  Source: therumpus.net

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• The first time I did a reading/signing thing at Cody's, the woman who did the introduction said something like that, and I wasn't the only one cringing. I remember looking out into the audience and seeing people's faces and people whispering to each other, and thinking like "Ugh, can we just cancel the whole thing? I can't go out there after she said that."

  Adrian Tomine

  Reading, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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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

  Book, Artist, Guy

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• I think most cartoonists are solitary, lonely kids who use their work as a way to try to connect with the world. If I had any other skills that were more performative - if I could have been a musician or an actor - I'm sure I would have pursued that instead in order to get that instant feedback and to hear applause.

  Adrian Tomine

  Lonely, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Email, Addresses, Internet

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" with Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Reading, Interesting, Letters

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" host Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Writing, People, Effort

  "Cover Me With Adrian Tomine". "Ask Me Another" host Ophira Eisenberg, www.npr.org. February 18, 2016.

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Writing, People, Guy

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Children, Parent, Being A Parent

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, Popular Entertainment, Voice

  Source: therumpus.net

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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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• 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."

  Adrian Tomine

  Thinking, California, Family And Friends

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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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."

  Adrian Tomine

  Artist, Past, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  People, Identity, Facts

  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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• 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Trying, One Day, Would Be

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

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• Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it was just an implicit acceptance, like being invited along to the dinner with all of the good cartoonists, or sitting down at a drafting table with an artist and him showing me how to draw backgrounds and perspectives.

  Adrian Tomine

  Acceptance, Artist, Perspective

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

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Struggle, Artist, Thinking

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

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• It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

  Adrian Tomine

  Becoming Better, Important, Becoming More

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

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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 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Emotional, Stories, Way

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

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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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenage, Artist, Boys

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used to be easier just to tell people that I was a magazine illustrator than try to explain that I did comics, but not the kind of comics that they were used to, and no, it's not pornography, etc. And now people even of our parents' generation are familiar with the term "graphic novel," which is kind of amazing.

  Adrian Tomine

  Nice, Artist, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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