Tomine can spend weeks on a single magazine cover, but his first love is comics. His new book Killing and Dying takes the medium to new heights of subtlety
Brooklyn-based cartoonist Adrian Tomine has been drawing professionally since he was in high school. Now, at 41, he’s an in-demand illustrator whose work regularly graces the covers of the New Yorker and classy Criterion Collection movie re-releases. But his first love remains comics, and his ongoing series Optic Nerve has thrived creatively even as many of his contemporaries shift their attentions away from periodicals and toward standalone books.
His new collection of short stories, Killing and Dying, is about as pure an expression of that love as an artist has produced during the recent boom in literary comics. Far more diverse in style than anything yet from the notoriously meticulous 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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