The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
Published on 21. July 2020
Book
Hardback
168 pages
978-0-571-35768-0 (ISBN)
Description
WINNER OF THE 2021 EISNER AWARDS - Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication Design
'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH
'A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir.' Irish Times
Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!'
Self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous, Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing, and people at large, and once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it.
'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH
'A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir.' Irish Times
Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!'
Self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous, Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing, and people at large, and once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it.
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Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Children/juvenile
Dimensions
Height: 213 mm
Width: 143 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
456 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-571-35768-0 (9780571357680)
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Born in Sacramento in 1974, Adrian Tomine is the author of the acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve. His books include Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, Scenes from an Impending Marriage and, most recently, New York Drawings, all of which are published by Faber in the UK. Since 1999, his comics and illustrations have appeared regularly in The New Yorker, where he has created more than a dozen iconic covers. He lives in Brooklyn, New York, with his wife and daughters.