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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

Topics: Art Cartoonists Charge Covers Easy Editor Familiar Her New New Yorker Personalities She Very Working Yorker

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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

Topics: Apartment Attached Because Berkeley Coming Dating Emotions Exciting Gloomy Hindsight Kind Least Like Living Lot Myself New New York Protracted Romantic Single Someone Started Summer Time Vacation Very Whereas York

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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

Topics: Artists Comics Immerse Most Read Tried Where World You

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

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Just Making Over Taking Them

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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

Topics: Always Book Comic Comic Book Letters Published Range Responses Section Work

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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

Topics: Advice Artists Audience Become Blindly Certain Certain Point Criticism Doing Either Follow Get Going Keep Listen Necessarily Own Point Readers Requests Say Them Think Way Wrong I Think

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When I started creating my work for publication, I just assumed that the focus would be on the work itself and that there wouldn't be a lot of interest in who was creating the work.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Assumed Creating Focus Interest Itself Just Lot Publication Started Who Work Would

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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

Topics: 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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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

Topics: 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 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

Topics: California Eating Food Grandparents Grew Home Hometown Japanese Lot Made Most Parents Restaurants Rolls Served Up Versions

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: May 31st, 1974

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