Adrian Tomine

Peanuts' is a life-long influence, going back to before I could even read. ”

I think having kids has been the biggest influence on my work since I started publishing. ”

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. ”

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

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. ”

New York is a brutally expensive place to live, and the kind of person who might have the dedication and esoteric taste to make the comics that I would really love is finding it more relaxing to live elsewhere. ”

A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life. ”

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. ”

In general, daily strips were just a regular part of my childhood. So even if I wasn't a huge fan of most of those strips, I still read them religiously every morning while I ate my cereal. ”

I had a mundane, happy childhood, without much struggle. ”