![]() ![]() As he goes on and on about his dream of becoming a cartoonist and emulating his favorite artists, his classmates laugh and what begins is a representation of the dichotomy at the heart of Tomine’s memoir: supreme confidence and self-congratulation tempered by humiliation and self-flagellation. ![]() ![]() The book opens on Tomine’s first day in a new school in 1982. The fact that being a cartoonist is all that Tomine ever wanted is part of what makes the many embarrassments he encounters throughout his career both more difficult and darkly comic, a recurring theme. Adrian Tomine‘s autobiographical The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is self-aware, funny, and ultimately a poignant account of the realities of Tomine’s chosen profession. ![]()
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