Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Self-portrait of Adrian Tomine for "The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist." (Adrian Tomine / Drawn & Quarterly) If you ...

Standing on the corner near his Rockridge apartment, the indie cartoonist Adrian Tomine is approached by a one-eyed man selling the Street Sheet. He tells the guy he has no change. Really -- no change ...

Hand Adrian Tomine a business card and a pen, and he can sketch out a fully realized narrative on the back. The young artist is as deft as anyone working in comics today at creating efficient but ...

Eight years later, Killing and Dying arrives — courtesy Drawn and Quarterly — as a sweeping anthology that appears, stylistically, like a retrospective, although all the stories were drawn in recent ...

Adrian Tomine is a master of the short, graphic vignette that leaves an impression — often dropping readers into a scene just long enough to grasp its mood and characters. His newest collection, The ...

“When I heard that the 9/11 memorial and museum were going to be the top tourist attractions in New York this summer,” Adrian Tomine says about this week’s cover, “I first sketched only tourists going ...

Anyone who has ever heard me talk about being a book critic (whether by choice or as an innocent, no-doubt-extremely-bored bystander) knows that I am passionate about this work and take it extremely ...

In 2001, graphic novelist Adrian Tomine (Shortcomings) published a pungent one-page comic describing his own history with the legacy of Long Duk Dong. On Friday, I explained what's "cringeworthy" ...

It's no surprise that the 11th issue of Adrian Tomine's indie comic book Optic Nerve will make you want to slit your wrists and howl in frustration. Tomine is famous for his spare, depressing tales of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. Every so often, you hear about a project that combines artistic ...

When he was sixteen, Adrian Tomine began self-publishing his acclaimed comic book series Optic Nerve in his bedroom at his parents' house. Characterized by distinct simplicity coupled with subtle ...

Adrian Tomine had been publishing his acclaimed graphic novel series “Optic Nerve” for over 15 years when he finally answered calls from his fans to create a work that featured an Asian-American lead ...