![]() ![]() Zadie Smith, Chris Ware, Junot Díaz, and Jonathan Lethem are fans. His muted but expressive artwork will be instantly recognizable to readers of the New Yorker magazine, where he has contributed illustrations and covers since 1999, collected in the volume New York Drawings. To be fair, Tomine, 46, has won ample acclaim for his graphic books, including Killing and Dying, Shortcomings, and Summer Blonde, and for his long-running comic book series, Optic Nerve. “Everything in oeuvre has been more or less done before.” “Pretty good until started ripping off Clowes.” “Derivative overrated.” “Played-out ‘Gen-X’ pseudo-profundity.” “Cringe-inducing.” Cartoonist Adrian Tomine knows all the critiques of him and his work, and they get airtime in a wonderfully self-deprecating new graphic memoir, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist (Drawn and Quarterly, July 21). ![]()
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