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  • Bibliography:
    11 Books
  • First Book:
    February 1998
  • Latest Book:
    October 2024
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Book List in Order: 11 titles



  • In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Opti...



  • Dan Clowes meets Walker Evans in this collection of subway and street portraits by Adrian Tomine, whose work readers will recognize from Time, Rolling Stone, Dave Eggersis Best American Nonrequired Reading and the cover of The New Yorker. New York Sk...



  • From the pre-eminent cartoonist of his generation, the most anticipated graphic novel of 2007 Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine's first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive, Japanese-American male in his late-twenti...



  • Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve, this book offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper int...



  • Inspiration for the acclaimed film Paris, 13th District, directed by Jacques Audiard Adrian Tomine's cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover graphic novel. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine ...





  • "One of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time." -- Wired Killing and Dying is a stunning showcase of the possibilities of the graphic novel medium and a wry exploration of loss, creative ambition, identity, and family dynamics. With this ...



  • Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. Between his second and third tours of duty, a soldier returns home. To his former home, that is, using an old...



  • One of the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2020! Featured on best of the year lists from Publishers Weekly and the Washington Post! A comedic memoir about fandom, fame, and other embarrassments from the life of a New York Times bestseller What ...






  • Between the ages of seventeen and twenty, Adrian Tomine self-published a series of "mini-comics": small, hand-assembled booklets thta he wrote, drew, and distributed himself. Entitled Optic Nerve, these comics were comprised of short vignettes and st...



  • Everything you wanted to know about storytelling or Adrian Tomine but were too afraid to ask“That would’ve been too easy and spontaneous for me, and I had to find a way to make everything more complicated.”And yet for over thirty ye...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Adrian Tomine has published 11 books.

The next book by Adrian Tomine, Q&A, will be published in October 2024.

The first book by Adrian Tomine, 32 Stories; The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, was published in February 1998.

No. Adrian Tomine does not write books in series.