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Basically, if you work hard and practice an instrument every day, you'll learn how to play like a professional. You'll get better and better each day. And that's how it works for me. I wasn't magically inclined to play. I had to keep practicing and practicing to train my fingers. ”
A lot of people record on a laptop and use plug-ins, which might be OK for the kind of music that they're doing. But for the kind of music that I'm doing, that just doesn't work. I can't cut corners; everything has to be organic. ”
Fortunately, I've never had to be too critical of my own work, because the world is critical enough. ”
I started my career so early and developed in print for better or for worse, so I think there's a sense some of my earliest readers are kind of copilots on this voyage with me. ”
It's a strange thing to be a so-called alternative cartoonist, because in the early part of my career, I was really tethered to the superhero world. ”
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. ”
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. ”
A lot of my fears come out in my work rather than life. ”
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. ”