The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine

Specifikacia The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist - Adrian Tomine

n this heartfelt and beautifully crafted work, Adrian Tomine presents the most honest and insightful portrait you will ever see of an industry that I can no longer bear to be associated with. -- Alan MooreA wonderful book about feeling morbidly self-conscious while also longing to connect with other people, even though it doesn't always?i.e. usually doesn't?work out the way one wants it to. It perfectly captures what it's like to be a cartoonist, and also what it's like to be a person. -- Roz ChastA painfully honest and often hilarious view behind the curtain of the 'glamorous' life of a cartoonist. Tomine draws on life's stresses, embarrassments, and achievements as he goes through an evolution of self-awareness. A must-read for Tomine fans and all aspiring cartoonists. -- Richard McGuireI couldn't put this book down. Tomine's vulnerability and willingness to share the cringiest moments of his life (ranging from juicy to uproarious to deeply healing) are a reminder to be braver, because what have you got to lose? -- Lisa HanawaltA charming, occasionally maddening ledger of our profession's unrelenting parade of indignities. -- Michael DeForgeIn this deeply self-aware, darkly funny memoir, Tomine recounts the highlights of his career through a series of cringe-worthy encounters, and readers hardly need to be a world-famous cartoonist to relate. -- Malaka GharibTomine reveals himself again a master of self-satire as his formidably healthy artist's ego and attendant anxiety butt up against a largely indifferent world. This merciless memoir delivers laughter with a wince, to the point of tears., Publishers Weekly, starred reviewTomine, who is perhaps the John Cheever of comics (in the way they both excavate the human heart), shows how our lives are less tidy than [the] common memoir arc., Lit Hub [Tomine is] master of the form . . . His seductively clean line makes for instantly romantic images . . . But the key to Tomine's fiction is the rage and fragility beneath the pristine compositions . . . Constructed in a loose, appealingly humble style on a Moleskine-like grid, the 26 vignettes here trace a lifetime of neuroses and humiliations, from Fresno, 1982, to Brooklyn, 2018, blurring the line between character trait and occupational hazard., New York TimesIn his latest book, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine turns himself into the everyman of writerly mortification, cataloguing all of the above indignities and many more besides in such brilliant and toe-curling detail., Observer