Adrian Tomine
Autor(a) de Shortcomings
About the Author
Image credit: www.adrian-tomine.com/
Séries
Obras por Adrian Tomine
New York Postcards: 30 Illustrations from the Pages of The New Yorker and Beyond (2014) 5 exemplares
Comics (in McSweeney's 33 - EGGERS) 1 exemplar
Joe Matt's "Jam" Sketchbook 1 exemplar
Associated Works
McSweeney's Issue 13 (McSweeney's Quarterly Concern): The Comics Issue (2004) — Contribuidor — 1,284 exemplares
An Anthology of Graphic Fiction, Cartoons, and True Stories: v .2 (2008) — Contribuidor — 155 exemplares
Drawn & Quarterly: Twenty-five Years of Contemporary Cartooning, Comics, and Graphic Novels (2015) — Contribuidor — 134 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Data de nascimento
- 1974-05-31
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- USA
- Locais de residência
- Sacramento, California, USA
Berkeley, California, USA
Brooklyn, New York, USA - Educação
- University of California, Berkeley
- Relações
- Brennan, Sarah (wife)
Membros
Críticas
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)
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)
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.
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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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 33
- Also by
- 17
- Membros
- 4,659
- Popularidade
- #5,413
- Avaliação
- 3.8
- Críticas
- 143
- ISBN
- 88
- Línguas
- 10
- Marcado como favorito
- 20
- Pedras de toque
- 79
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!