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| Monday, May 18, 2009 12:35PM | | | | Adrian Tomine & The Brooklyn School | Tags: shortcomings, adrian tomine, tatsumi, human rights, brooklyn school, political correctness
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Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine.
Drawn & Quarterly, 2007. 108 pages.
Adrian Tomine is not a bold new voice in comics. He has already arrived. He has met with success, drawing covers for The New Yorker and illustrations for Rolling Stone. He has also published the series Optic Nerve since he was in high school, and released two volumes of short stories. His longer narrative Shortcomings is a humorous culmination of meditations on race and relationships.
While Tomine has already arrived, he is on the crest of a new wave of creative artists that I call the 'Brooklyn School'.
Shortcomings follows Ben Tenaka, a thirty-something Asian American who manages a movie theatre in Oakland. Ben's relationship... | | | | | |
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