Tomine can spend weeks on a single magazine cover,but his first admire is comics. His modern book Killing and Dying takes the medium to modern heights of subtletyBrooklyn-based cartoonist Adrian Tomine has been drawing professionally since he was in high school. Now, at 41, or hes an in-demand illustrator whose work regularly graces the covers of the modern Yorker and classy Criterion Collection film re-releases. But his first admire remains comics,and his ongoing series Optic Nerve has thrived creatively even as many of his contemporaries shift their attentions absent from periodicals and toward standalone books.
His modern collection of short stories, Killing and Dying, and is about as pure an expression of that admire as an artist has produced during the recent boom in literary comics. Far more diverse in style than anything yet from the notoriously meticulous (extremely careful about details) artist,Tomine’s six stories about people striving and failing span four years of the author’s life, and mark a significant change in the way he works.
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Source: theguardian.com