Adrian Tomine

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Outside packaging cover for Adrian Tomine's New York Postcards set, featuring an illustration of a woman on the subway locking eyes with a man on another subway, reading the same book as one another.
Adrian Tomine - New York Postcards Set
$ 19.95
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Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve - Summer Blonde
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve - Summer Blonde
$ 16.95
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Tan colored cover of Shortcomings, with white petal patterns. 2 black and white illustrated people are in the bottom, each only half visible. One woman and one man.
Adrian Tomine - Shortcomings (Softcover)
$ 15.95
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Black book cover with elastic closure. Small illustration of a cartoonist drawing on a desk in bottom left corner. Title and author's name written in thin, all caps white font.
Adrian Tomine - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist
$ 29.95
Outside packaging cover for Adrian Tomine's New York Postcards set, featuring an illustration of a woman on the subway locking eyes with a man on another subway, reading the same book as one another.
Illustrated postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge, at night. In the foreground is a group of many people, all sitting on the grass and viewing a movie outdoors on a projector screen.
Illustrated postcard of a nude woman with visible tan lines, laying on her bed stomach down. Outside her window is a scene of lit up buildings at night.
Illustrated postcard of a street scene, with a UPS worker handing off a package to a woman coming out of the building. She looks at someone unlocking the bookshop next door.
Illustrated postcard of a 6 panel comic, a satire about the logo for the New Yorker.
Outside packaging cover for Adrian Tomine's New York Postcards set, featuring an illustration of a woman on the subway locking eyes with a man on another subway, reading the same book as one another.
Illustrated postcard of the Brooklyn Bridge, at night. In the foreground is a group of many people, all sitting on the grass and viewing a movie outdoors on a projector screen.
Illustrated postcard of a nude woman with visible tan lines, laying on her bed stomach down. Outside her window is a scene of lit up buildings at night.
Illustrated postcard of a street scene, with a UPS worker handing off a package to a woman coming out of the building. She looks at someone unlocking the bookshop next door.
Illustrated postcard of a 6 panel comic, a satire about the logo for the New Yorker.

Adrian Tomine - New York Postcards Set

$ 19.95

30 postcards, measures 4.9 x 6.8 inches.

Iconic postcards from the world's most beloved New Yorker illustrator!

Adrian Tomine's illustrations have graced the pages and covers of publications such as the New Yorker and the New York Times Magazine for more than a decade, offering a singular vision of an incomparable town. This set of postcards collects thirty of his most beloved images.

Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve - Summer Blonde

Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve - Summer Blonde

$ 16.95
Softcover, 132pp

Reading just a page of this Optic Nerve collection will improve your life considerably. But don't stop there; curl up on a rainy day and read the whole thing, twice.
Tan colored cover of Shortcomings, with white petal patterns. 2 black and white illustrated people are in the bottom, each only half visible. One woman and one man.
Black and white panel excerpt, an illustrated woman lays on her bed and looks and various photos of herself.
Tan colored cover of Shortcomings, with white petal patterns. 2 black and white illustrated people are in the bottom, each only half visible. One woman and one man.
Black and white panel excerpt, an illustrated woman lays on her bed and looks and various photos of herself.

Adrian Tomine - Shortcomings (Softcover)

$ 15.95
Softcover, 9.25" x 6.5", 108pp, Black & White

Ben Tanaka has problems. In addition to being rampantly critical, sarcastic, and insensitive, his longåÐterm relationship is awash in turmoil. His girlfriend, Miko Hayashi, suspects that Ben has a wandering eye, and more to the point, it's wandering in the direction of white women. This accusation (and its various implications) becomes the subject of heated, spiralling debate, setting in motion a story that pits California against New York, devotion against desire, and trust against truth.

By confusing their personal problems with political ones, Ben and Miko are strangely alone together and oddly alike, even as they fly apart. Being human, all too human, they fail to see that what unites them is their shared hypocrisies, their double standards. This gray zone between the personal and the political is a minefield that Tomine navigates boldly and nimbly. The charged, volatile dialogues that result are unlike anything in Tomine's previous work or, for that matter, comics in general. But Shortcomings is no mere polemic. Any issues that are raised stand on equal footing with expertly-crafted plot turns, subtle characterization, and irreverent humor, all drawn in Tomine's heart-breakingly evocative style. What Tomine ultimately offers is more provocation than pronouncement--a brutal, funny, and insightful reflection of human shortcomings.

Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine's iconic comic book series Optic Nerve (issues #9-11) and was excerpted in McSweeney's Quarterly Concern #13.

Cover varies in color.
Black book cover with elastic closure. Small illustration of a cartoonist drawing on a desk in bottom left corner. Title and author's name written in thin, all caps white font.
Single page spread. 6 panel cartoon with matching story text about a cartoonist.
Single page spread. 6 panel cartoon with matching story text about a cartoonist at a convention.
Black book cover with elastic closure. Small illustration of a cartoonist drawing on a desk in bottom left corner. Title and author's name written in thin, all caps white font.
Black book cover with elastic closure. Small illustration of a cartoonist drawing on a desk in bottom left corner. Title and author's name written in thin, all caps white font.
Single page spread. 6 panel cartoon with matching story text about a cartoonist.
Single page spread. 6 panel cartoon with matching story text about a cartoonist at a convention.
Black book cover with elastic closure. Small illustration of a cartoonist drawing on a desk in bottom left corner. Title and author's name written in thin, all caps white font.

Adrian Tomine - The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

$ 29.95
Hardcover, 168 pages, Measures 5.5" x 8.3"

A COMEDIC MEMOIR ABOUT FANDOM, FAME, AND OTHER EMBARRASSMENTS FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF KILLING AND DYING

What happens when a childhood hobby grows into a lifelong career? The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine's funniest and most revealing foray into autobiography, offers an array of unexpected answers. When a sudden medical incident lands Tomine in the emergency room, he begins to question if it was really all worthwhile: despite the accolades and opportunities of a seemingly charmed career, it's the gaffes, humiliations, slights, and insults he's experienced (or caused) within the industry that loom largest in his memory.

Tomine illustrates the amusing absurdities of how we choose to spend our time, all the while mining his conflicted relationship with comics and comics culture. But in between chaotic book tours, disastrous interviews, and cringe-inducing interactions with other artists, life happens: Tomine fumbles his way into marriage, parenthood, and an indisputably fulfilling existence. A richer emotional story emerges as his memories are delineated in excruciatingly hilarious detail.

In a bold stylistic departure from his award-winning Killing and Dying, Tomine distills his art to the loose, lively essentials of cartooning, each pen stroke economically imbued with human depth. Designed as a sketchbook complete with place-holder ribbon and an elastic band, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist shows an acclaimed artist at the peak of his career.