![]() ![]() It’s a controlled mess of a classic, from the title’s micropenis innuendo to its final silent panels: a crystalline snapshot of Asian-American identity in the aughts. The book begins with the skewering of an Asian-American film festival, and the bad vibes only get worse (and funnier) from there. ![]() In his 2007 graphic novel “Shortcomings,” race becomes a live wire, as its antihero, a Gen-X Japanese-American slacker in Berkeley, utterly loses his cool in a stew of interracial dating and infidelities. His seductively clean line makes for instantly romantic images - think of his iconic New Yorker cover depicting two cuties sitting in passing subway cars who spot each other clutching the same book.īut the key to Tomine’s fiction is the rage and fragility beneath the pristine compositions. ![]() Born in Sacramento in 1974, Adrian Tomine has gone from “the boy wonder of mini-comics” (per Daniel Clowes) to master of the form, and for the past 20 years his books have moved from strength to strength. ![]()
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