Latest Adrian Tomine Quotes from Interviews

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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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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.

• 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.

• 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.

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Parent, Comic, Publishing

• 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

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

  Adrian Tomine

  Kids, Judging, Endeavor

• 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

• I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people, so it's just never going to be a real stand-in version of your comic. People will have to take advantage of the ability to have sound, or zoom in and out, whatever it is.

  Adrian Tomine

  Real, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

• 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Book, People, Cards

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

• 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

• 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Alternatives, Gone, Done

  Source: therumpus.net

• There's also an immediacy to everything that has changed everybody's expectations. Now if I can't get a hold of somebody on their cell phone I'm, like, angry with them. And in my mind, all the things that I really value in terms of art, really good novels or films or comics, I know they all take a long, long time to create, and they take a lot of concentration and dedication...and I just feel like the training for that is becoming more and more rare when people are used to seeing things like YouTube clips, and being able to acquire things instantly.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Dedication, Phones

  Source: therumpus.net

• I think it's harder for each generation. Even I just feel completely separate from teenagers today who have access to the Internet. And I'm amazed that this interest in video games has never gone away. It just keeps growing.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenager, Thinking, Games

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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.

  Adrian Tomine

  Teenager, Player, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

• 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

• 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

• 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