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For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that.
— Adrian Tomine
Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor.
— Adrian Tomine
Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough.
— Adrian Tomine
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
I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.
— Adrian Tomine
I used to live in Chris Rock's former apartment. I've got some junk mail for him if he wants it.
— Adrian Tomine
I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle.
— Adrian Tomine
'Shortcomings' was me figuring out who I am.
— Adrian Tomine
I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.
— Adrian Tomine
Ninety percent of the time when I'm working, there's this very palpable sensation that I'm doing everything wrong and should just give up.
— Adrian Tomine
The most impactful comics that I've read are the ones where the artists swung for the bleachers and tried to immerse you in their world.
— Adrian Tomine
A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life.
— Adrian Tomine
I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.
— Adrian Tomine
It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.
— Adrian Tomine
I wanted to be as invisible as possible as an artist. I wanted to differentiate between myself and who I'm writing about.
— Adrian Tomine
I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.
— Adrian Tomine
It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.
— Adrian Tomine
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
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.
— Adrian Tomine
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
My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
— Adrian Tomine
One of the by-products of being allowed to start my professional career prematurely is that the evolution of my work is really evident.
— Adrian Tomine
When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.
— Adrian Tomine
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
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
THE EXPERIENCE OF READING A COMIC SHOULD NOT BE THE TIME IT TAKES TO TURN EACH PAGE.
— Adrian Tomine
I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process.
— Adrian Tomine
There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'
— Adrian Tomine
I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
— Adrian Tomine
I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing.
— Adrian Tomine
I'm sometimes a cartoonist, and there's an audience for that, and I'm sometimes an illustrator, and there's an audience for that.
— Adrian Tomine
