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When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.

When I started publishing my work, one of the biggest surprises to me was the recurring question about my background and why I wasn't doing more stories about Asian-Americans.


Adrian Tomine  Adrian Tomine
Tags: Romantic  Vision  New York  Movies  New 

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Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.[1]

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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.

    Adrian Tomine  Adrian Tomine   
 Tags: Reading Great Me Looking Forward
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When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address.

    Adrian Tomine  Adrian Tomine   
 Tags: Internet Email Never Box Stuck Just
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I started publishing my comic while I was still living with my parents.

    Adrian Tomine  Adrian Tomine   
 Tags: Parents Living Started Still Comic
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I think that if you are looking at a comic that's made by one person, that there's just a level of intimacy that I don't really see anywhere else.

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 Tags: Think Looking You Person See Made
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The type of cartooning that I think is generally referred to as 'alternative' or 'underground' is usually - the distinction is usually in terms of whether it's made by one person, the entire thing is done by one hand or more of a production line process, which is how the comics that we grew up reading were made.

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 Tags: Reading Think Process Done More Up
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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.

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 Tags: Good Sports Growing Up Drawing Rock
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I used to live in Chris Rock's former apartment. I've got some junk mail for him if he wants it.

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 Tags: Live Rock Mail Apartment Used Him
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I grew up with a very romantic, idealized vision of New York, probably because of all the books I read and the movies I watched.

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