Shortcomings

Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine

Shortcomings
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Author: Adrian Tomine
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2007-10-02
ISBN: 1897299168
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly

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Book Review: Tomine in Top Form
Summary: 5 Stars

Tomine has always been a great storyteller. His writing is wry and laugh-out-loud funny at times, but it's his drawings that really shine in this collected volume. His panels are wonderfully art directed and his renderings are beautifully nuanced and evocative. It's just a matter of time before someone offers this guy a shot at directing. Treat yourself and pick it up.

Summary of Shortcomings

Amazon Significant Seven, November 2007: Adrian Tomine draws his mid-twenties slackers with an impeccable, exact line for every slumpy gesture and cultivated rumple. In Shortcomings, this ex-wunderkind tackles a book-length comic for the first time after three collections of stories, and his maturity shows not so much in the ages of his characters, who are still slackly wandering, dropping out of grad school or managing a movie theater, but in his calm and masterful handling of his story, in which vividly individual characters wander through the maze of imposed and self-generated stereotypes of Asian and American identities (the title is a wry allusion to one of the most enduring of those assumptions). Never has that old commonplace that the personal is the political seemed more paralyzing, and more true. --Tom Nissley
FROM THE PREEMINENT 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 twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.

Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine’s iconic comic book series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #13.

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