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Discover the Best Books Written by Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series Optic Nerve. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. His graphic novel "Shortcomings" was a New York Times Notable Book of 2007.
His next release, "Killing and Dying," will be published by Drawn and Quarterly in October 2015. Since 1999, Tomine has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters. Tomine began self-publishing his work as a teenager but was 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 his biggest influences. He is also a fan of his contemporary, Chris Ware.
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