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Title: Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine ISBN: 1-896597-57-2 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: July, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Slap in the face
Comment: Just like his other two books of collections, this one is another SLAP in your FACE, when it comes to your emotions. As I read the stories I get drawn into the charcaters' simple events, yet complex emotions surrounding those events and feel hit when the end comes. I love how all of Tomines stories are dreary, having and/or not having closure at the same time, depending on how you look at it. I also enjoy the fact that his stories get progressively longer (from the first book on) and so this books is full of 4 long stories. The graphics are good and do an amazing job at expressing emotions and reactions of the characters. Also, I love how all his comics are based on a miserable real world and are told truthfully.
Rating: 3
Summary: meow
Comment: This book is...okay, it's not something thats grand or something that should be considered a cult comic. I mean there are stories in this comic that do absorb you and you feel for the chracter, but most of his stories are pretty much along the same lines, and after a while it gets sort of repeptive, if you're someone who is a hopeless romantic and starting to get into comics, then these comics that are for you, but if you're a teenager or a college student or whatever that is hateful and angsty, then, no, maybe you should read Daniel Clowes, or Nate Powell.
Rating: 3
Summary: Four Very Similar Stories
Comment: I really liked Tomine's first collection (32 Stories), and loved his last one (Sleepwalk and Other Stories), so shelled out for the hardcover edition of his latest. The four stories are beautifully drawn in Tomine's instantly recognizable precise style, but the storytelling is rather disappointing. His stuff has always been somewhat similar, focusing on loss and loneliness, but here here four protagonists (three male, one female) are little more than subtle variations of each other. Each is a kind of lonerish social outcast type who has deep problems relating to others and whose imagination is fertile territory for spawning sad obsessions. So you get a hipsterish writer who never got over high school and thus neglects his beautiful girlfriend due to his fascination with the younger sister of "the hot chick" from high school. Then you have the pimply-faced production designer at the alternative paper who seethes at his neighbor's casual sexual prowess and turns quasi-stalker in a surge of misguided imagination. There's the stoic Asian woman who simply cannot manage even a normal conversation. The last story is a totally banal high-school loser story which veers into a loser version of a John Hughes movie with a totally ridiculous ending. I still dig how Tomine just jumps into his character's lives, and manages to convey their whole life with a minimum of exposition, and then stops the story right when they're at a kind of emotional fork. The problem here is that the four stories are simply far too similar, almost as if he's stuck and has nothing else to say but further riffs on the same material he's been doing for ten years. I sure hope this isn't the case and that his next book will show a new maturation of his storytelling, 'cause he is a talented artist.
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Title: 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine ISBN: 1896597009 Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Blankets: An Illustrated Novel by Craig Thompson ISBN: 1891830430 Publisher: Top Shelf Productions Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: Box Office Poison by Alex Robinson ISBN: 1891830198 Publisher: Top Shelf Production Pub. Date: 01 May, 2001 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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Title: David Boring by Daniel Clowes ISBN: 0375406921 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth by Chris Ware ISBN: 0375404538 Publisher: Pantheon Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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