Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990-2004

Tomine, Adrian

ISBN 10: 1896597777 / ISBN 13: 9781896597775

Published by Drawn & Quarterly Pubns, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, 2004

About this Item

Fine, new, clean, crisp first printing, SIGNED by the author/artist to the half-title page. This is a striking oversized scrapbook with elegant rounded corners enclosing a comprehensive and exciting collection of the artist's projects, both published and unpublished. Tomine is best known for his acclaimed comic book series Optic Nerve.The Scrapbook has diverse work from album covers, posters, magazine illustrations and unpublished strips. Here is a documentary of a young cartoonists evolution.

Seller Inventory # 3224

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990-2004
• Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly Pubns, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1896597777
• ISBN 13: 9781896597775
• Binding: Softcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Signed: SIGNED

About this title

Synopsis

The ultimate collection by one of the most recognized talents in graphic novels: includes over a decade of comics and illustrations by the still-under-30 Adrian Tomine, from Pulse to The New Yorker and Esquire, collected together for the first time in one sharply-designed book.

Scrapbook is the first comprehensive Adrian Tomnie collection. here you'll find the complete run of strips which was originally published in Tower Records' Pulse Magazine which Adrian started when he was only 17, along with comics originally published in Details and a host of other magazines of the past decade. A large section of Scrapbook is dedicated to Tomine's extensive illustration and design work, featuring his best material over the years from virtually every major publication in America including The New Yorker, Details, Esquire, and the late JFK Jr.-edited George. Tomines' art has also graced popular album covers and posters for bands such as The Eels and Weezer and posters and its' all included here in this beautifully packaged book.

About the Author

Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series Optic Nerve when he was sixteen, and in 1994 he received an offer to publish from Drawn & Quarterly. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney's, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading. Both his graphic novel Shortcomings and his memoir The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist were named New York Times Notable Books of the year. Since 1999, Tomine has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.