Adults Quote by Adrian Tomine

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

— Adrian Tomine

The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page.

— Adrian Tomine

Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on…

— Adrian Tomine

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

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

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

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

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

I wanted all the responsibility to rest on the content of the story. I tried to make the visual style almost invisible.

— Adrian Tomine

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

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

Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some of it…

— Adrian Tomine