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Adrian Tomine

Autor(a) de Shortcomings

33+ Works 4,659 Membros 143 Críticas 20 Favorited

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Obras por Adrian Tomine

Shortcomings (2007) — Autor — 1,058 exemplares
Summer Blonde (2002) — Autor — 815 exemplares
Killing and Dying (2015) 484 exemplares
Sleepwalk: and Other Stories (1997) 481 exemplares
Scenes from an Impending Marriage (2011) 246 exemplares
Scrapbook (2004) 192 exemplares
New York Drawings (2012) 130 exemplares
Optic Nerve #1 (1995) 53 exemplares
Optic Nerve #9 (2004) 53 exemplares
Intruders (2015) 42 exemplares
Optic Nerve #10 (2005) 33 exemplares
Optic Nerve #8 (1838) 29 exemplares
Optic Nerve #3 (1996) 28 exemplares
Optic Nerve #7 (1994) 28 exemplares
Optic Nerve #5 (1998) 27 exemplares
Optic Nerve #2 (1995) 27 exemplares
Optic Nerve #6 (1836) 27 exemplares
Optic Nerve #4 (1656) 27 exemplares
Optic Nerve #11 (2007) 25 exemplares
Optic Nerve #12 (2011) 22 exemplares
Optic Nerve: 30 Postcards (2005) 19 exemplares
Optic Nerve #13 (2013) 14 exemplares
Optic Nerve #14 (2015) 9 exemplares
She Read the Letter... Journal (2005) 6 exemplares
Les yeux à vif (1998) 4 exemplares
Echo Avenue (1996) 4 exemplares

Associated Works

The Future Dictionary of America (2004) — Contribuidor — 621 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002 (2002) — Contribuidor — 593 exemplares
The Push Man and Other Stories (1969) — Editor, algumas edições472 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 379 exemplares
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories (2000) — Contribuidor — 356 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 195 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2009 (2009) — Contribuidor — 177 exemplares
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: v .2 (2008) — Contribuidor — 155 exemplares
The Best of McSweeney's {complete} (1800) — Contribuidor — 138 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2012 (2012) — Contribuidor — 113 exemplares
The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 108 exemplares
Dark Sparkler (2015) — Ilustrador — 105 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2014 (2014) — Contribuidor — 96 exemplares
The Best American Comics 2016 (2016) — Contribuidor — 77 exemplares
Town of Cats — Ilustrador, algumas edições18 exemplares

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Optic Nerve's entire goal is to examine the most awkward points in people's lives and it does so spectacularly.

A teenage girl annoyed at her emo sister, a nerd being annoyed by delinquents and unsure if he should resist, and a man who's painting his grandfathers house and remembering his porn collection.

There isn't a moral and any finality to the stories, they just end and leave this upsetting, awkward feeling. It's incredible, and dare I say, Tomine's style!
 
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AvANvN | 1 outra crítica | Nov 4, 2023 |
Ben Tanaka is a lapsed film studies grad student who runs a cinema on campus. He is anxious, angry, a bit self-hating, and conflicted about his desires, personal and sexual. Ben’s girlfriend, Miko, puts up with his unsupportive contribution to their relationship but her patience is wearing thin. His best friend, Alice Kim, is a grad student (they met as undergrads). She has her own issues. Her friendship with Ben is frank and, mostly, honest. She tells him when he is being an idiot, and he does his best to return the favour. Despite the ups and downs of their separate amorous relations, it is the friendship of Ben and Alice that persists.

This short graphic novel is both acerbic and sentimental. Ben is a difficult protagonist. Although he longs for love and sympathy, he seems, despite his age, emotionally stunted and immature. If it weren’t for Alice, who clearly sees something worthy of friendship in Ben, we might be inclined to give up on him. And it will take some serious growth for him also to not give up on himself.

Tomine’s graphic style is spare and patient but it is his characters’ self-scrutiny that stands out.

Gently recommended.
… (mais)
 
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RandyMetcalfe | 52 outras críticas | Aug 13, 2023 |
Bello il formato, bella l’idea, bello lo stile di Tomine ma qui a mio avviso rispetto agli altri suoi libri si perde un po’ di valore. L’autocommiserazione del fumettista “sfigato” dopo un poi si fa ripetitiva e pur essendoci sottotraccia (molto sottotraccia) la sua vicenda familiare, il libro non riesce a raggiungere la memorabilità di fumetti come Shortcomings e soprattutto Killing and Dying.
 
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d.v. | 9 outras críticas | May 16, 2023 |
Tomine has the great, let's say cinematographic ability to create with small details in his drawings - and maybe even more in the dialogues - a powerful flow of events and evolving characters. Here the mixture of relationships, sex and cultural differences builds-up a very compelling - and American, and contemporary - story.
 
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d.v. | 52 outras críticas | May 16, 2023 |

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Obras
33
Also by
17
Membros
4,659
Popularidade
#5,413
Avaliação
½ 3.8
Críticas
143
ISBN
88
Línguas
10
Marcado como favorito
20
Pedras de toque
79

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