I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents. — Adrian Tomine Comic Copy Share Image
The experience of reading a comic should not be the time it takes to turn each page. — Adrian Tomine Comic Copy Share Image
Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real… — Adrian Tomine Art 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… — Adrian Tomine Art 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… — Adrian Tomine Bigs 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… — Adrian Tomine Audience 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… — Adrian Tomine Able 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… — Adrian Tomine Bay area 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 Happiness 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… — Adrian Tomine Adults 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… — Adrian Tomine Books 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 Belief Copy Share Image
Without fail, every cartoonist that I asked advice from bent over backward to be helpful and encouraging. It took many forms: some… — Adrian Tomine Acceptance Copy Share Image
I'm always pointing things out to native New Yorkers that I think are weird about this place and their culture and all… — Adrian Tomine California Copy Share Image
For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child. — Adrian Tomine Being a parent Copy Share Image
I think when I finally got it in my head that I was going to do the story, I wanted to avoid… — Adrian Tomine People Copy Share Image
I set myself up for a lot of trouble by wanting to tell a story that is fairly earnest and emotional and… — Adrian Tomine Earnest Copy Share Image
I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make… — Adrian Tomine Art Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
In terms of e-books, though, I haven't quite gotten to the bottom of it yet, but for some reason everybody I know… — Adrian Tomine Book Copy Share Image
I think there's a lot of evolution that's happened in intangible ways, in terms of how I think about the work or… — Adrian Tomine Biology Copy Share Image
Underground and alternative comics existed in a vacuum for years, where money really wasn't an issue. No one would get into doing… — Adrian Tomine Alternatives Copy Share Image
Look, there's no denying that comics have moved dramatically into the mainstream in North American culture in the last 10 years, and… — Adrian Tomine American culture Copy Share Image
I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that… — Adrian Tomine Eyeballs Copy Share Image
That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto,… — Adrian Tomine Adults Copy Share Image
