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Adrian Tomine Quotes

American - Cartoonist | May 31, 1974 -

I'm not the best person to analyze any kind of evolution in my work, but I do feel like it's been an ongoing struggle to basically teach myself how to tell the kinds of stories that interest me in comics form.

Work Myself Best Struggle Me Feel

When I first started drawing the earliest incarnation of 'Optic Nerve,' I hadn't even been on a date; I hadn't had a romantic relationship of any kind yet, so in a way, I was almost writing science fiction.

Relationship Science Romantic Writing

I've always liked the tradition of publishing work serially in the comic-book 'pamphlet' format and then collecting that work in book form, so I've just stuck with it.

Work Book Tradition Always Just

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

Moment Thought Drawing Down Never

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.

Time Doing Wrong Everything Up Give

The comics work is very slow, and it basically involves working for sometimes years in isolation and not knowing how the work is going to be received.

Work Isolation Slow Not Knowing

I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish.

Think New Get Five Publish Response

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.

Sometimes Audience Cartoonist

The art editor in charge of the covers at the 'New Yorker' is Francoise Mouly. She's very familiar with the eccentricities and personalities of cartoonists, so working with her is very easy.

Art Easy New She Her Working

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.

World You Where Artists Most Tried

I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.

Over Just Making Taking Them

I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.

Work Book Letters Always Comic Book

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