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 Copy Share Image
I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
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… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I feel like if people are going to go to the effort to get a stamp and, you know, put it on an envelope… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
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… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
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… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
For a stretch of time, I got really caught up in the idea that what people liked about my work was that I was… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible. — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
I was just a guy who did adult or alternative comic books. And then suddenly to be, like, a New Yorker cover artist was… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
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… — Adrian Tomine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
