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Adrian Tomine

Auteur van Tekort

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Werken van Adrian Tomine

Tekort (2007) — Auteur — 1,080 exemplaren
Summer Blonde (2002) — Auteur — 826 exemplaren
Killing and Dying (2015) 501 exemplaren
Sleepwalk: and Other Stories (1997) 492 exemplaren
Scenes from an Impending Marriage (2011) 250 exemplaren
Scrapbook (2004) 196 exemplaren
New York Drawings (2012) 133 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #1 (1995) 53 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #9 (2004) 53 exemplaren
Intruders (2015) 45 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #10 (2005) 34 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #8 (1838) 29 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #3 (1996) 28 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #7 (1994) 28 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #5 (1998) 27 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #2 (1995) 27 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #6 (1836) 27 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #4 (1656) 27 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #11 (2007) 25 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #12 (2011) 22 exemplaren
Optic Nerve: 30 Postcards (2005) 19 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #13 (2013) 14 exemplaren
Optic Nerve #14 (2015) 9 exemplaren
She Read the Letter... Journal (2005) 6 exemplaren
Les yeux à vif (1998) 4 exemplaren
Echo Avenue (1996) 4 exemplaren

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Well honed comedic self deprecating critique of the world of a graphic novelist. The drawings easily pass unnoticed. The internal dialogue is perfect.

I wish the author let himself go a little more, when he does there is something of magic.
 
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yates9 | 10 andere besprekingen | Feb 28, 2024 |
Adrian Tomine’s Shortcomings focuses on Ben Tanaka, a movie theater manager in Berkeley, California who rejects the racialized identity that America proscribes for him. As a result of this, Ben never quite feels that he fits in with white America nor does he feel himself in spaces created by Asian-Americans and those of the Asian diaspora in the U.S. He grows increasingly hostile toward those around him, dismissing his girlfriend Miko Hayashi’s political art based on Asian-American identity and ignoring her both emotionally and sexually. Instead, he stares at white women, fetishizing them and spending his nights with pornography focused on white women. At the same time, he reacts violently when he sees white men dating Asian women, viewing them as sexual colonizers. Ben’s only friend, Alice, also struggles with identity as a queer Asian-American woman in grad school, trying to balance her own identity against that her parents, colleagues, and community expect of her. Though all three characters struggle to find a balance between internal and external pressures of identity, Ben fails to reach any form of comfort and catharsis while Miko and Alice find a way to move forward for themselves amid the uncertainty of the future.

The visual medium works particularly well as it requires seeing. Ben refuses to see race, but Tomine’s art shows how Ben is always observing the people around him and where they fit. He uses a security camera to watch a woman employee at the movie theater that he later tries to date. He watches pornography featuring white women, often of white women with other white women. He feels hostile when he overhears Alice with another woman since their activities are not for his consumption. Ben becomes hostile after Miko leaves when he finds out that she posed for another art student’s photography, so the she was seen by another man in the form of the photographer and subsequent men who viewed the picture. The visual style of comics and graphic novels render races differently based on visual cues, even using Japanese and Korean text for some of the word balloons, drawing the reader into the act of “seeing” race. Tomine’s graphic novel encourages the reader to sit with the discomfort of how we “see” race in the U.S.
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DarthDeverell | 55 andere besprekingen | Feb 28, 2024 |
Juvenelia of a sort ... Tomine's earlier work. Nice to see how his visual style has evolved.
 
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monicaberger | 8 andere besprekingen | Jan 22, 2024 |
Collects Optic Nerve #09-11
 
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Bedeteca | 55 andere besprekingen | Jan 19, 2024 |

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Werken
33
Ook door
19
Leden
4,754
Populariteit
#5,277
Waardering
½ 3.7
Besprekingen
149
ISBNs
90
Talen
10
Favoriet
20

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