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Aug 10, 2023 · Shortcomings. Brooklyn-based cartoonist Adrian Tomine arrived on the '90s comics scene as a self-publishing teenage wunderkind and the envy of many in the industry. Jonathan Lethem, Alan Moore, Lisa Hanawalt and Chris Ware have all professed their admiration for Tomine over the years, whose subtly-rendered clear line illustrations are perhaps ...
Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series Optic Nerve when he was sixteen, and in 1994 he received an offer to publish from Drawn & Quarterly. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading.
Adrian Tomine at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival. Shortcomings is a graphic novel by cartoonist Adrian Tomine. Shortcomings was originally serialized in issues #9 through #11 of Tomine's comic book series Optic Nerve before being released as a whole in 2007. It was also excerpted in Timothy McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.
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Jun 1, 2003 · Paperback – June 1, 2003. Adrian Tomine's cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover graphic novel. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane ...
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Feb 5, 2021 · Adrian Tomine is an American contemporary cartoonist. He is best known for his award-winning book Killing and Dying and his illustrations in The New Yorker. (Submitted by Adrian Tomine)
Jun 14, 2023 · During the early aughts, indie comics were the only place to find Asian American stories by Asian American cartoonists. One of the biggest books to come out in that period was Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine. Now, a decade and a half later, that indie comic has been turned into an indie movie at Sony Pictures Classics in Randall Park’s ...
