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Adrian Tomine

March 11, 2023

Adrian Tomine (/toʊˈmiːnə/;[1] born May 31, 1974) is an American cartoonist. He is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.[2]

Adrian Tomine
Tomine at the 2014 Comic Arts Brooklyn
Born (1974-05-31) May 31, 1974 (age 48)
Sacramento, California, US
NationalityAmerican
Area(s)Writer, Artist
Notable works
Optic Nerve
http://www.adrian-tomine.com/

Early life

Adrian Tomine was born May 31, 1974, in Sacramento, California.[3] His father is Dr. Chris Tomine, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering at California State University Sacramento's Department of Civil Engineering. His mother is Dr. Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus at California State University Sacramento's School of Education. His grandmother was Shizuko Ina, who was pictured in Dorothea Lange's photo essay on the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII.[4] He also has a brother, Dylan, who is eight years his senior.

Tomine is fourth-generation Japanese American. Both of his parents, in spite of being third-generation Americans, spent part of their childhoods incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II.[5]

Tomine's parents divorced when he was two years old, after which he moved frequently, accompanying his mother to Fresno, CA, then Oregon, Germany, and Belgium, while spending summers with his father in Sacramento.

As a child, Tomine enjoyed reading Spider-Man comics,[6] and was inspired to experiment with drawing and creating his own stories. In an interview, he said, "Something about the medium just transfixed me at an early age".[7]

In high school, he began writing, drawing, and self-publishing Optic Nerve, which he has continued producing as a regular comic book series for Drawn & Quarterly. Tomine continued to produce the series while studying English as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley.[8][9]

Career

Tomine began self-publishing his work when he was a teenager, but was also featured in mainstream publications like Pulse! while still in high school.

In an interview published in The Comics Journal #205, Tomine addressed criticisms of his work and discussed his influences; the magazine cover featured his self-parody of sorts, a sequence in which a hipster girl says to the reader, "I'm so cute! I love coffee and indie rock! But... I'm sad. Can you relate?"

Tomine cites Jaime Hernandez (Love and Rockets) and Daniel Clowes (Ghost World) as two of his biggest influences. He is also a fan of his contemporary, Chris Ware.

Optic Nerve

Optic Nerve is Tomine's ongoing comic series that was originally self-published in minicomic format and distributed to local comics shops in his area. Tomine published seven issues of the Optic Nerve mini; most of the stories were later compiled into a single edition, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, published by Drawn & Quarterly.

After Drawn & Quarterly became Tomine's publisher, Optic Nerve was published at standard comic book size, and the issue numbering was restarted, with the first Drawn & Quarterly-published issue renumbered as #1. These comics range from a few pages per story to the 32-page standard in later issues.

Issues #1–4 included several stories each and were later collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories. Issues #5–8 included one story each and were collected in Summer Blonde.

Issues #9–11 were compiled into the critically praised 2007 graphic novel Shortcomings, a complete story arc in which Tomine explored Asian American racial issues directly.[10]

Killing and Dying

In 2015, Tomine's graphic novel Killing and Dying, a collection of six short stories, was released to critical acclaim and became a New York Times Bestseller.[11] It was named one of New York Magazine’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of the Year and one of NPR‘s Best Books of the Year, and was winner of The Story Prize’s Spotlight Award. Stories from the book were also honored with an Eisner Award for Best Short Story and excerpted in The Best American Comics anthology.

In its review of Killing and Dying, Wired magazine called Tomine “one of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time.” English author Zadie Smith praised the collection saying, “[Tomine] has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.”

Comics artist Chris Ware said of the compilation: “As a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create ‘That Book’: a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesn’t normally read comics: one that doesn’t require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its attitude, humanity, and complexity that it speaks maturely for itself… Adrian Tomine‘s Killing and Dying may finally be That Book, and I’m amazed and heartened by it.”

Album art

Tomine has contributed to several rock bands‘ album packaging design, including liner notes and album art for Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, "Last Stop: This Town", "Cancer for the Cure", and End Times; Yo La Tengo's 2006 covers albums Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics and Murder in the Second Degree; The Softies' It's Love; and The Crabs' What Were Flames Now Smolder.

Commercial illustration and The New Yorker

Tomine regularly works in commercial illustration. He frequently contributes illustrations and has done several magazine covers for The New Yorker; his first was the sequence entitled "Missed Connection". Tomine also illustrated the "Alpha Teens," a group of cartoon characters who appeared in commercial bumpers for Noggin's teen block, The N.[12]

Collected works

  • 1998 – 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics (ISBN 1-896597-00-9)
  • 1998 – Sleepwalk and Other Stories (ISBN 1-896597-12-2)
  • 2002 – Summer Blonde (ISBN 1-896597-57-2)
  • 2004 – Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990–2004 (ISBN 1-896597-77-7)
  • 2005 – New York Sketches 2004 (ISBN 0-9766848-2-9)
  • 2007 – Shortcomings (ISBN 978-1-897299-16-6)
  • 2011 – Scenes From an Impending Marriage (ISBN 978-1770460348)
  • 2012 – New York Drawings (ISBN 978-1770460874)[2]
  • 2015 – Killing and Dying (ISBN 978-1770462090)
  • 2020 – The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (ISBN 978-1770463950)

Awards

References

  1. ^ O'Reilly, Seams (August 25, 2020). "Loneliness of The Long-Distance Cartoonist: Adrian Tomine's life and career". The Irish Times. Retrieved April 21, 2022.
  2. ^ a b Kaneko, Mina (November 11, 2012). "Adrian Tomine's New York". The New Yorker.
  3. ^ Adrian Tomine (2002). 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics. Drawn & Quarterly. p. 99. ISBN 9781896597003.
  4. ^ 8
  5. ^ Melissa Hung (Oct 16, 2002). "Geek Chic". East Bay Express. Retrieved 2006-09-17.
  6. ^ Tomine, Adrian (July 21, 2020). "Fresno, 1982" (PDF). The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist.
  7. ^ Sinclair, Mark (March 13, 2009). . Creative Review. Archived from the original on 2015-03-19. Retrieved 2009-11-10.
  8. ^ Spiegler, Marc. "Striking a Nerve". Wired. ISSN 1059-1028. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  9. ^ Nguyen, Viet Thanh (2020-10-15). "Escaping Loneliness: An Interview with Adrian Tomine". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
  10. ^ Windolf, Jim (November 11, 2007). "Asian Confusion". The New York Times.
  11. ^ Rollman, Hans (20 October 2015). "In 'Killing and Dying', Drama Is Hidden Between the Lines of Profile Art and Dialogue". PopMatters.
  12. ^ Neihart, Ben (March 20, 2005). "DGrassi Is tha Best Teen TV N da WRLD!". The New York Times. The alpha teens were created for The N by Berkeley-based comic-book author Adrian Tomine

9 Lindberg, Melissa “Her Name is Shizuko”—A Mother’s Influence (May 5, 2021). Library of Congress May 5, 2021.

External links

  • Official website  
  • Tomine page at Drawn & Quarterly
  • Tomine page at lambiek.net
  • Scene Missing Magazine interviews Adrian Tomine
  • from ifpthendirt.
  • Comics Reporter: Tom Spurgeon: A short interview with Adrian Tomine
  • Adrian Tomine interview (December 2004) for QRD
  • Tomine interview (Jan 2008) Fresh Air, NPR
  • 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
  • "Interview with Adrian Tomine". The New Yorker. July 26, 2010.
  • "Q&A with New Yorker Magazine about "Killing and Dying".The New Yorker. January 15, 2015.

March 11, 2023
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Adrian Tomine t oʊ ˈ m iː n e 1 born May 31 1974 is an American cartoonist He is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker 2 Adrian TomineTomine at the 2014 Comic Arts BrooklynBorn 1974 05 31 May 31 1974 age 48 Sacramento California USNationalityAmericanArea s Writer ArtistNotable worksOptic Nervehttp www adrian tomine com Contents 1 Early life 2 Career 2 1 Optic Nerve 2 2 Killing and Dying 2 3 Album art 2 4 Commercial illustration and The New Yorker 3 Collected works 4 Awards 5 References 6 External linksEarly life EditAdrian Tomine was born May 31 1974 in Sacramento California 3 His father is Dr Chris Tomine Ph D and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Engineering at California State University Sacramento s Department of Civil Engineering His mother is Dr Satsuki Ina Ph D and Professor Emeritus at California State University Sacramento s School of Education His grandmother was Shizuko Ina who was pictured in Dorothea Lange s photo essay on the internment of Japanese Americans during WWII 4 He also has a brother Dylan who is eight years his senior Tomine is fourth generation Japanese American Both of his parents in spite of being third generation Americans spent part of their childhoods incarcerated in Japanese American internment camps during World War II 5 Tomine s parents divorced when he was two years old after which he moved frequently accompanying his mother to Fresno CA then Oregon Germany and Belgium while spending summers with his father in Sacramento As a child Tomine enjoyed reading Spider Man comics 6 and was inspired to experiment with drawing and creating his own stories In an interview he said Something about the medium just transfixed me at an early age 7 In high school he began writing drawing and self publishing Optic Nerve which he has continued producing as a regular comic book series for Drawn amp Quarterly Tomine continued to produce the series while studying English as an undergraduate at UC Berkeley 8 9 Career EditTomine began self publishing his work when he was a teenager but was also featured in mainstream publications like Pulse while still in high school In an interview published in The Comics Journal 205 Tomine addressed criticisms of his work and discussed his influences the magazine cover featured his self parody of sorts a sequence in which a hipster girl says to the reader I m so cute I love coffee and indie rock But I m sad Can you relate Tomine cites Jaime Hernandez Love and Rockets and Daniel Clowes Ghost World as two of his biggest influences He is also a fan of his contemporary Chris Ware Optic Nerve Edit Optic Nerve is Tomine s ongoing comic series that was originally self published in minicomic format and distributed to local comics shops in his area Tomine published seven issues of the Optic Nerve mini most of the stories were later compiled into a single edition 32 Stories The Complete Optic Nerve Mini Comics published by Drawn amp Quarterly After Drawn amp Quarterly became Tomine s publisher Optic Nerve was published at standard comic book size and the issue numbering was restarted with the first Drawn amp Quarterly published issue renumbered as 1 These comics range from a few pages per story to the 32 page standard in later issues Issues 1 4 included several stories each and were later collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories Issues 5 8 included one story each and were collected in Summer Blonde Issues 9 11 were compiled into the critically praised 2007 graphic novel Shortcomings a complete story arc in which Tomine explored Asian American racial issues directly 10 Killing and Dying Edit In 2015 Tomine s graphic novel Killing and Dying a collection of six short stories was released to critical acclaim and became a New York Times Bestseller 11 It was named one of New York Magazine s Top 10 Graphic Novels of the Year and one of NPR s Best Books of the Year and was winner of The Story Prize s Spotlight Award Stories from the book were also honored with an Eisner Award for Best Short Story and excerpted in The Best American Comics anthology In its review of Killing and Dying Wired magazine called Tomine one of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time English author Zadie Smith praised the collection saying Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime Comics artist Chris Ware said of the compilation As a serious cartoonist one secretly hopes to create That Book a book that can be passed to a literary minded person who doesn t normally read comics one that doesn t require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its attitude humanity and complexity that it speaks maturely for itself Adrian Tomine s Killing and Dying may finally be That Book and I m amazed and heartened by it Album art Edit Tomine has contributed to several rock bands album packaging design including liner notes and album art for Eels Electro Shock Blues Last Stop This Town Cancer for the Cure and End Times Yo La Tengo s 2006 covers albums Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics and Murder in the Second Degree The Softies It s Love and The Crabs What Were Flames Now Smolder Commercial illustration and The New Yorker Edit Tomine regularly works in commercial illustration He frequently contributes illustrations and has done several magazine covers for The New Yorker his first was the sequence entitled Missed Connection Tomine also illustrated the Alpha Teens a group of cartoon characters who appeared in commercial bumpers for Noggin s teen block The N 12 Collected works Edit1998 32 Stories The Complete Optic Nerve Mini Comics ISBN 1 896597 00 9 1998 Sleepwalk and Other Stories ISBN 1 896597 12 2 2002 Summer Blonde ISBN 1 896597 57 2 2004 Scrapbook Uncollected Work 1990 2004 ISBN 1 896597 77 7 2005 New York Sketches 2004 ISBN 0 9766848 2 9 2007 Shortcomings ISBN 978 1 897299 16 6 2011 Scenes From an Impending Marriage ISBN 978 1770460348 2012 New York Drawings ISBN 978 1770460874 2 2015 Killing and Dying ISBN 978 1770462090 2020 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist ISBN 978 1770463950 Awards Edit2021 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Memoir for The Loneliness of the Long Distance CartoonistReferences Edit O Reilly Seams August 25 2020 Loneliness of The Long Distance Cartoonist Adrian Tomine s life and career The Irish Times Retrieved April 21 2022 a b Kaneko Mina November 11 2012 Adrian Tomine s New York The New Yorker Adrian Tomine 2002 32 Stories The Complete Optic Nerve Mini Comics Drawn amp Quarterly p 99 ISBN 9781896597003 8 Melissa Hung Oct 16 2002 Geek Chic East Bay Express Retrieved 2006 09 17 Tomine Adrian July 21 2020 Fresno 1982 PDF The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist Sinclair Mark March 13 2009 Q amp A Adrian Tomine Creative Review Archived from the original on 2015 03 19 Retrieved 2009 11 10 Spiegler Marc Striking a Nerve Wired ISSN 1059 1028 Retrieved 2022 04 25 Nguyen Viet Thanh 2020 10 15 Escaping Loneliness An Interview with Adrian Tomine The Paris Review Retrieved 2022 04 25 Windolf Jim November 11 2007 Asian Confusion The New York Times Rollman Hans 20 October 2015 In Killing and Dying Drama Is Hidden Between the Lines of Profile Art and Dialogue PopMatters Neihart Ben March 20 2005 DGrassi Is tha Best Teen TV N da WRLD The New York Times The alpha teens were created for The N by Berkeley based comic book author Adrian Tomine 9 Lindberg Melissa Her Name is Shizuko A Mother s Influence May 5 2021 Library of Congress May 5 2021 External links EditThis article s use of external links may not follow Wikipedia s policies or guidelines Please improve this article by removing excessive or inappropriate external links and converting useful links where appropriate into footnote references October 2020 Learn how and when to remove this template message Official website Tomine page at Drawn amp Quarterly Tomine page at lambiek net Nichi Bei Times interview Scene Missing Magazine interviews Adrian Tomine Hand written interview with Adrian Tomine from ifpthendirt Comics Reporter Tom Spurgeon A short interview with Adrian Tomine Adrian Tomine interview December 2004 for QRD Review of Shortcomings The Culturatti Tomine interview Jan 2008 Fresh Air NPR 2011 radio interview 50 minutes at The Bat Segundo Show Interview with Adrian Tomine The New Yorker July 26 2010 Q amp A with New Yorker Magazine about Killing and Dying The New Yorker January 15 2015 Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Adrian Tomine amp oldid 1130940261, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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