Adrian Tomine

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. ”

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. ”

There have been a handful of assignments over the years that I've had to turn down due to time constraints, and I was fairly envious when I saw the finished product, beautifully illustrated by someone else. ”

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. ”

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!' ”

When email and the Internet came along, I never publish an email address. I just stuck with this P.O. Box address. ”

For a long time, I was very resistant to the idea of online publication or even e-books or something like that. ”

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. ”

I intentionally approached each story in 'Killing and Dying' in a different way, and that includes the writing process. ”

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. ”