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I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: About Been Experience Familiar Hobby Kid Like Maybe Must Parents Pursuit Some Strange Thinking Ways Were

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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.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: About Background Biggest Doing Me More Publishing Question Recurring Started Stories Surprises Why Work

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On a very basic, concrete level, there have been times when my work, regardless of the content, has harmed relationships because I made that work such a primary priority in my life.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Basic Because Been Concrete Content Harmed Level Life Made My Life Primary Priority Regardless Relationships Times Very Work

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I really love New York, but I have to say, the humidity during the summer is a nightmare for a cartoonist. Not only am I sweating in my studio, my bristol board is curling up, the drafting tape is peeling off the board, my Rapidograph pens bleed the minute I put them to paper... it's a disaster.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Am Bleed Board Bristol Cartoonist Curling Disaster Drafting Humidity Love Minute New New York Nightmare Off Only Paper Pens Put Really Say Studio Summer Sweating Tape Them Up York

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When I'm sitting at my drafting table in my studio, I could really be anywhere.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: Anywhere Could Drafting Really Sitting Studio Table

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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

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I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.

~Adrian Tomine

Topics: American Based Cartooning Diversity Gets Great Increase Japanese Limited Many See Think Translated View

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The story entitled 'Good-Bye' is probably Tatsumi's most well-known work, and I think it's a good representation of many of Tatsumi's skills and stylistic tendencies.

~Adrian Tomine

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To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

~Adrian Tomine

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There's a part of me that feels like it gets really frustrating to keep working in the manner that I made the book 'Shortcomings,' where everything is pretty accurate to the real world.

~Adrian Tomine

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Cartoonist

Born: May 31st, 1974

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