where is the love for nineteen year old blonde girls? adrian tomine's optic nerve: c o' d?

Why do you think the new arc transcends emo, Blount? The lead character is intriguing in his douchebaggery, yes, but hasn't AT always done stories based around largely unsympathetic characters? Is that emo or not?

Not sure with frames if this'll work, but here's the direct page.

Yes, these past two and the unpublished finale will be bound and published by D&Q... eventually.

Definitely. I think the third issue is gonna decide what I think about the whole arc, I just hope it comes in under two years.

So I spite myself by waiting for the collections, which, at this rate, will be every 4 years or so. Great.

Obviously classic, though. Even though its too emo for me and can be cringey and obvious, it feels real and well-observed and deeply felt. And yeah, can be very funny. Plus I always like his art. Not so much that I understand why it takes him a year to do one issue, but still...

maybe it's some sorta "Quimby's" connection...

Artbabe and audibly inhaling into the mic.

Not his fault as his work is completed... he's published at D&Q's whimsy.

And in the intro to #10 he describes the story as still being a work in progress, gygax OffTM.

Mr. T0min3 and I chatted a couple weeks ago when he was in town for the holidays and this very subject came up and this is how he put it to me (allow me to paraphrase): the series is done, he's waiting patiently for D&Q to finesse him into their release schedule.

Anyone bought the New York Sketchbook? Thumbs up?

Finally got around to reading Shortcomings. It was a great book, but man the relentless bitterness and aggravating main character made it a little tough to get through, he was so unsympathetic (though quite believable). Still, I'm glad it exists, there were a ton of painfully awkward, insightful moments in there - there really aren't that many Asian-American stories around, let alone with this stark tone and being so frank about sexuality and race. And as always, Tomine's art was really good.

Loved that it started off with that bit about the Asian-American film festivals and the incredibly sappy movie about the girl realizing her stolid father was actually a great guy after all - ridiculously otm. Ben comes off as a jerk for criticizing it, but it's true, there is just a ton of crap like that at these AAFFs, this is the shit that gets made. (Even in the comics world - I really like Derek Kirk Kim and Gene Yang's stuff, too, but...) Wish there were a few more laughs in the book (like the "Tai Chi" moment) but what can you do.

Are Optic Nerve issues still coming out? Has he been doing anything besides illustrations since these stories were made?

he had a story in kramers ergot 7 that was pretty good. also, i saw him give a talk promoting the new edition of 32 stories that came out last year, although there's not really too much new stuff there.

i like shortcomings alot, although i'm glad i read it before i learned that he's THE ONE to hate on comics message boards.

is that so? haha, i wonder why that is

i saw him give a talk promoting the new edition of 32 stories that came out last year, although there's not really too much new stuff there.

surely there'd be exactly NO new stuff in a facsimile edition of something that came out over 15 years ago?

well by "not really too much," i'm including the introduction, which is new. not comics, but still "stuff" i guess. (also, there's chris oliveros's letter rejecting his first submission to D&Q, which is kinda funny.)

are those on separate single pages? the thing was meant to be a box of indivdual reprints of #1-7 of the minis, right? (those sound great, though!)

yeah, it's the minis, plus a pamphlet with the original intro, the new intro, and the oliveros letter. it's a pretty attractive production, actually... i didn't have the original book, so i was happy to get it.

i like tomine as a draftsman

I don't like tomine period.

yeah, wish D&Q had kept on sending him rejection letters

What would be a good starting point for Tomine?

I started with Sleepwalk

recently brought up in the racism thread, a classic
http://i.imgur.com/Tf2Coii.jpg

optic nerve u can download the whole thing onto your laptop & read it each morning

yeah, wish D&Q had kept on sending him rejection letters

Me too. Then I would never have wasted my time reading any of his work.

wow, Translated, from the Japanese

so do I have this right?: his new book will have both stories from Optic Nerve #12 (one of which was from Kramer's 7), one of the three stories from #13, and (mostly?) a new story?

OK seems from this NYer interview that a new Optic Nerve will be out before the collection, with the title story (and others?) in it

told him at SPX in 2013 how much I loved the redesign with #12, that it felt like being rewarded for caring about comic books and printing quality and design -- he was pleased and said that for him, the comic book is still the real proper format of the work