Adrian Tomine Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• 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.

• Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and for someone like me who's always tried to make a living at it, it's been great, I'm very grateful for it. But at the same time, it's not a subculture-y thing anymore; it's something that's in the New York Times and the New Yorker.

  Adrian Tomine

  New York, Grateful, Years

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

• 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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