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 progress recently. A…

- Adrian Tomine

I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eye…

- Adrian Tomine

When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and…

- Adrian Tomine

I think there was a point in the past when I felt that my options as an artist were either to make race a nonissue and deny its impact on life and ju…

- Adrian Tomine

It's important to make a distinction between becoming more precise and becoming better.

- Adrian Tomine

Just in terms of being able to be a professional artist, but also it's nice to not have to dread introductions. "What you do for a living?" It used t…

- Adrian Tomine

That partially due to the world of media and commerce, the idea of a comic book has been lost in the ghetto, whereas the graphic novel is now being h…

- Adrian Tomine

And with this sort of increased visibility, there's more money going around in the industry, and it changes a lot, in terms of who gets into the busi…

- 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 was just an …

- Adrian Tomine