A writer from Ricepaper loaned me a couple books by Adrian Tomine. He's a graphic novel/comic writer/illustrator from Berkeley, California. The last time I was this excited about an author was when I read Hemmingway's complete short stories. Sleepwalk and other Short Stories just blows me away, it's sixteen animated stories about the emotional lives of literate twentysomethings. It's eerie how much I identify with some of the characters. It's the rare graphic novelist who is as good a storyteller as he is an illlustrator. Tomine is briliant on both fronts
On my way back from Seattle today I listened to Herman Dune's I Hope that I Can See You Soon maybe five times in a row (thanks Jason). The video for this song is just as amazing.
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i love that tune as well, and the sesame street video.
i hope that i can see you soon
Oh I love Adrian Tomine. I feel the same way about being excited by an author rarely.
Summer Blonde, I think, has somewhat changed my life. It is the book I have bought many copies of as gifts.
So, circumstance led me to be reading Summer Blonde at about the same time that I ended up cleaning out my inbox, and I happened upon this post again.
To be entirely honest, I didn't think much of the graphic novel until very recently, and Adrian Tomine is largely to blame for that (change of heart).
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