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I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
~ Adrian Tomine
Back
Catalog
Could
Crack
Elated
Eradicate
Fresh
Honestly
Ideas
If I Could
Magic
Magic Wand
Some
Then
Those
Wand
Wave
Would
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I'm always a little apprehensive about 'decoding' fictional stories.
~ Adrian Tomine
About
Always
Fictional
Little
Stories
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I'm an unabashed fan of 'The New Yorker.' I do feel proud when I see my artwork in there.
~ Adrian Tomine
Artwork
Fan
Feel
I See
New
New Yorker
Proud
See
Yorker
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I'm Japanese, but restaurants in my hometown served the most sanitized versions of California rolls. I grew up eating a lot of Japanese food at home that my parents or grandparents made.
~ Adrian Tomine
California
Eating
Food
Grandparents
Grew
Home
Hometown
Japanese
Lot
Made
Most
Parents
Restaurants
Rolls
Served
Up
Versions
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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.
~ Adrian Tomine
Analyze
Any
Basically
Been
Best
Comics
Evolution
Feel
Form
How
Interest
Kind
Kinds
Like
Me
Myself
Ongoing
Person
Stories
Struggle
Teach
Tell
Work
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I'm not the kind of person who would throw himself into some exciting or dangerous situation just to get material. So I tend to go about my normal, boring life and just try to look at things a little more closely.
~ Adrian Tomine
About
Boring
Closely
Dangerous
Exciting
Get
Go
Himself
Just
Kind
Life
Little
Look
Material
More
Normal
Person
Situation
Some
Tend
Things
Throw
Try
Who
Would
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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.
~ Adrian Tomine
Audience
Cartoonist
Illustrator
Sometimes
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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.
~ Adrian Tomine
Always
Book
Collecting
Form
Format
Just
Liked
Pamphlet
Publishing
Stuck
Then
Tradition
Work
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I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book.
~ Adrian Tomine
Always
Book
Comic
Comic Book
Letters
Published
Range
Responses
Section
Work
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If anything, I feel a bit of pressure to write about less disenfranchised people, because I'd probably sell more books that way and would've already had some hot property that I could've sold to Hollywood.
~ Adrian Tomine
About
Anything
Because
Bit
Books
Disenfranchised
Feel
Had
Hollywood
Hot
I Feel
Less
More
People
Pressure
Property
Sell
Sold
Some
Way
Write
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In general, daily strips were just a regular part of my childhood. So even if I wasn't a huge fan of most of those strips, I still read them religiously every morning while I ate my cereal.
~ Adrian Tomine
Ate
Cereal
Childhood
Daily
Even
Every
Fan
General
Huge
Huge Fan
Just
Morning
Most
Part
Read
Regular
Still
Strips
Them
Those
Were
While
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It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world.
~ Adrian Tomine
Alternative
Because
Career
Cartoonist
Early
Part
Really
So-Called
Strange
Strange Thing
Superhero
Thing
World
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It's absolutely chilling to think that I've been working on a comic-book series called 'Optic Nerve' since I was sixteen.
~ Adrian Tomine
Absolutely
Been
Chilling
Nerve
Series
Since
Sixteen
Think
Working
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Most normal boys, as they're growing up, they - in order to become attractive, they might, you know, get good at sports or join a rock band or develop good social skills, and for some reason, I thought that drawing comic books might be my route.
~ Adrian Tomine
Attractive
Band
Become
Books
Boy
Comic
Comic Books
Develop
Drawing
Get
Good
Growing
Growing Up
Join
Know
Might
Most
Normal
Order
Reason
Rock
Rock Band
Route
Skills
Social
Social Skills
Some
Sports
Thought
Up
You
design
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Most of my work - including everything from my own comics to the covers I've drawn for 'The New Yorker' - is the result of taking some personal experience or observation and then fictionalizing it to a degree.
~ Adrian Tomine
Comics
Covers
Degree
Drawn
Everything
Experience
Including
Most
My Own
New
New Yorker
Observation
Own
Personal
Personal Experience
Result
Some
Taking
Then
Work
Yorker
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My 20s were peaceful, privileged, but still I felt the desire to write angsty dramas.
~ Adrian Tomine
Desire
Dramas
Felt
Peaceful
Privileged
Still
Were
Write
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My early comics are really reflective of being kind of a befuddled, single loser in the Bay Area, and I think having kids has been by far the most profound impact on me as a person and as an artist.
~ Adrian Tomine
Area
Artist
Bay
Bay Area
Been
Befuddled
Being
Comics
Early
Far
Has-Been
Having
I Think
Impact
Kids
Kind
Loser
Me
Most
Person
Profound
Profound Impact
Really
Reflective
Single
Think
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My responsibility is to present things in a way that is realistic and true to the multifaceted world I've known... This is how I think the world is, not how it should be.
~ Adrian Tomine
How
I Think
Known
Multifaceted
Present
Realistic
Responsibility
Should
Things
Think
True
Way
World
design
copy
New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere.
~ Adrian Tomine
Brutally
Comics
Dedication
Elsewhere
Esoteric
Expensive
Finding
Kind
Live
Love
Love Is
Make
Might
More
New
New York
Person
Place
Really
Relaxing
Taste
Who
Would
York
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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.
~ Adrian Tomine
Doing
Everything
Give
Just
Ninety
Ninety Percent
Palpable
Percent
Sensation
Should
Time
Up
Very
Working
Wrong
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