For me, as much about being a parent as it is about being a child. — Adrian Tomine Being a parent Copy Share Image
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
Maybe you're not even in a position to really judge how good your kid is at that endeavor. — Adrian Tomine Child 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
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 Artist Copy Share Image
I guess there's just a part of me that's not very enthusiastic about finding myself ten years from now halfway through a… — Adrian Tomine Enthusiastic Copy Share Image
I wanted to try to create characters that happen to be Asian but who are pretty different from those we generally see… — Adrian Tomine Asian Copy Share Image
It's cold water in the face to realize you're not nearly as special and as unusual as you might have thought when… — Adrian Tomine Alienated 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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
There are some people who may not like precision in their art. They may like it to be grittier and more gestural,… — Adrian Tomine Art Copy Share Image
When I talk to people who have teenagers now, their rooms are filled with screens. There are their phones and their DVD… — Adrian Tomine Adolescence 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
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
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
You start to get nervous when the value of a comic book or graphic novel is relative to the achievements of some… — Adrian Tomine Achievement 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
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
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
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'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
And also, as a consumer now, it's weird that when I used to go to a book signing I would leave with… — Adrian Tomine Book Copy Share Image
I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience. — Adrian Tomine Ambition 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
There are certain artists and filmmakers who, I get the impression, are trying to show off how bad their characters can be,… — Adrian Tomine Art Copy Share Image
When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address. — Adrian Tomine Addresses Copy Share Image
I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally… — Adrian Tomine Attitude Copy Share Image
I think a lot of the criticism had to do with disliking the characters - which, again, I take as something of… — Adrian Tomine Character Copy Share Image
A lot of the kinship that people notice is not coincidental. I was very impressionable and trying to find my role models… — Adrian Tomine Impressionable 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
I think a lot of the bells and whistles that become available to you would be impossible to resist for some people,… — Adrian Tomine Ability Copy Share Image
