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32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comicsby Adrian TomineISBN 1896597009 (1-896597-00-9)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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› Find signed collectible books: '32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics'Book summary:In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved, page counts increased, and by issue seven, sales had reached 6,000. In 1994, Drawn & Quarterly took over the publishing duties of Optic Nerve, and the original seven issues sold out and were left out of print. 32 stories presents these rare, early editions, collected for the first time in a single volume.[via]More editions of 32 Stories : The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics:
Abandon the Old in Tokyoby Adrian TomineISBN 1894937872 (1-894937-87-2)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Adrian Tomine: New York Sketches 2004by Adrian TomineISBN 0976684829 (0-9766848-2-9)
Softcover, Buenaventura Pr
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The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2004by Adrian TomineISBN 0618341234 (0-618-34123-4)
Softcover, Houghton Mifflin
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Good-Byeby Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Adrian TomineISBN 1897299370 (1-897299-37-0)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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Optic Nerveby Adrian TomineISBN 1894937643 (1-894937-64-3)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Publications
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The Push Man And Other Storiesby Adrian Tomine , Yuji Oniki, Yoshihiro TatsumiISBN 1896597858 (1-896597-85-8)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990-2004by Adrian TomineISBN 1896597777 (1-896597-77-7)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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She Read The Letter Journalby Adrian TomineISBN 0811844919 (0-8118-4491-9)
Softcover, Chronicle Books Llc
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Shortcomingsby Adrian TomineISBN 1897299168 (1-897299-16-8)
Hardcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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Sleepwalkby Adrian TomineISBN 1896597122 (1-896597-12-2)
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Summer Blondeby Adrian TomineISBN 1896597572 (1-896597-57-2)
Softcover, Drawn & Quarterly Pubns
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Summer Blonde'Book summary:Adrian Tomine, creator of the critically acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve, has been called the comics voice of the twentysomething generation, but it's a title he rejects, and for good reason. The tales of disconnection and alienation collected in Summer Blonde--a selection of the best of Optic Nerve--aren't expressions of youthful angst so much as they are meditations on the discontent we all feel with contemporary life.
The four stories here have echoes of Raymond Carver in their minimalist style and focus on dysfunctional relationships, but Tomine's real strength lies in his identification of the "undercover craziness" in us all--the damaged selves that we hide beneath facades of normalcy. In "Hawaiian Getaway," for instance, a woman's inability to navigate office politics or family expectations leads to a breakdown, and she begins calling the pay phone outside her apartment and talking to the strangers who answer. Other stories are sharp indictments of the madness of modern society. In "Bomb Scare" the brutality and disregard high school students direct at each other reflect the casual violence of the first Gulf War playing out on their televisions. In the title story, a stalker's interference in the life of a woman exposes the empty voids that lie under our social rituals and leads to an eruption of violence.
Some readers may wonder how to interpret the ambiguous endings of the stories in Summer Blonde, but this ambiguity is the whole point of Tomine's work. The world he creates is just as confusing and uncertain as our own lives. While his characters are often unlikable, simultaneously creepy and pathetic, they remain understandable because Tomine always ensures that we see ourselves in them. --Peter Darbyshire [via]
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Echo Avenue.by Adrian TomineISBN 3931377024 (3-931377-02-4)
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Rubia de verano/ Summer Blondeby Adrian TomineISBN 1594972575 (1-59497-257-5)
Softcover, Public Square Books
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