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" All my stories take place on the West Coast - not the beach, but smaller inland towns. I feel homesick, and I find inspiration in capturing that. "
Adrian Tomine
Place
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Feel
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" I enjoy getting any kind of mail. Like, for me, like, the more interesting a letter is, I just get more excited, and I know that this going to be great for my friends who are looking forward to reading that in my comic. "
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Looking Forward
Looking
Great
" I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle. "
Adrian Tomine
Struggle
Without
Had
" 'Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read. "
Adrian Tomine
Back
Before
Going
" Even though I'm usually not conscious of it, I think drawing has always served a sort of therapeutic purpose in my life. There's something about the process of translating the messy chaos of real life into a clean, simple drawing that's always been comforting to me. "
Adrian Tomine
Purpose
My Life
Life
" 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
Work
Struggle
Best
" There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!' "
Adrian Tomine
Drawing
Moment
Thought
" 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
Work
Book
Always
" 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
Sometimes
Illustrator
Audience
" 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. "
Adrian Tomine
Work
Slow
Not Knowing
" 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. "
Adrian Tomine
New
Her
Easy
" 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
Wrong
Working
Time
" 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. "
Adrian Tomine
Writing
Science
Romantic
" I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them. "
Adrian Tomine
Just
Making
Over
" 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
Present
Think
Responsibility
" 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
Strange
Early
World
" What was a very private childhood hobby turned into a very a public, professional job, and I think that there's a lot of inhibition that can grow from that. "
Adrian Tomine
Job
Childhood
Professional
" I had relatives who would go to Japan and bring back random stuff they bought at the airport or whatever - 'Ultraman' and 'Speed Racer,' stuff like that. "
Adrian Tomine
Relatives
Airport
Speed
" 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. "
Adrian Tomine
Artists
Tried
You
" 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
Been
Working
Think
" I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me. "
Adrian Tomine
Progress
Book
Work
" I think the response I get to one 'New Yorker' cover outweighs five books that I publish. "
Adrian Tomine
Get
Five
Books
" For a lot of the time I was in Berkeley, I was single. I was living in a kind of collegiate apartment by myself - it was like a protracted summer vacation. So at least in hindsight, I have gloomy emotions attached to Berkeley, whereas I started coming to New York because I was dating someone, and it was very exciting and romantic. "
Adrian Tomine
Dating
Vacation
Time
" I think that artists, at a certain point, can either become defiant and say that the audience is wrong, readers don't get them, and they're going to keep doing it their own way, or they can listen to the criticism - and not necessarily blindly follow the audience's requests and advice. "
Adrian Tomine
Advice
Listen
Think
" I've always published a range of responses to my work in the letters section of my comic book. "
Adrian Tomine
Work
Letters
Always