Adrian Tomine - Killing and Dying

2015 (first hardcover edition). Hardcover with original plastic sleeve. 121 pages.

Excellent condition. Almost as new.

With Killing and Dying, Adrian Tomine presents six new stories unlike any he has told before. Unpredictable, darkly funny, and deeply moving, they display an exceptional range of focus and technique. The Village Voice called Tomine "one of the most masterful cartoonists of his generation," and this is his most ambitious and empathetic work to date.

The landscapes in Adrian Tomines comics are stripped down to their most essential lines, so precisely and elegantly observed as to imply the whole world around them. His characters are drawn with the same meticulous intentionality, but their personalities come off as looser, broader caricaturesthese are contemptible men and put-upon women. As the volumes title punningly suggests, Killing and Dyings six stories (collected from recent issues of Tomines comic book Optic Nerve, which has appeared intermittently since 1991, when he was seventeen years old) feint at comedy of various kinds, but theres no laugh here that isnt choking on bitterness.