PAST EVENT
Adrian Tomine in Conversation with John Freeman for Alta’s California Bookclub ONLINE
Thursday, August 21, 2025
05:00pm
Adrian Tomine
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.
PAST EVENT
Adrian Tomine exhibit at Galerie Martel in Paris, May 15 to June 28
Wednesday, May 21, 2025 to Saturday, May 17, 2025
06:00pm
PAST EVENT
Adrian Tomine, Chris Ware, Edward Steed and other D&Q authors featured in Covering the New Yorker Exhibit
Tuesday, January 21, 2025 to Sunday, March 30, 2025
09:00am
PAST EVENT
D&Q at MoCCA Fest 2025 with Michael DeForge, Katie Fricas, María Medem, Walter Scott, Edward Steed & Adrian Tomine
Saturday, March 15, 2025 to Sunday, March 16, 2025
11:00am
PAST EVENT
Adrian Tomine delivers Keynote at Librarycon Live on November 14
Thursday, November 14, 2024
01:00pm
PAST EVENT
Adrian Tomine launches Shortcomings: The Screenplay with Randall Park and Jennifer Szalai
Monday, June 24, 2024
07:00pm
July 10, 2024
Adrian Tomine’s Q&A featured in LitHub’s most anticipated titles
I first met Tomine’s work through The New Yorker, where he’s a resident cartoonist. His graphic shorts look closely...
June 17, 2024
Adrian Tomine on the cover of The New Yorker
Regardless of parents’ attempts to be cool, there comes an age at which their children find everything about them mort...
May 31, 2024
BuzzFeed features two D&Q cartoonists in their AAPI author roundup
Reading and centering diverse stories are important — not only because they help us learn through others’ perspe...
April 12, 2024
The San Francisco Chronicle talks Shortcomings on the big screen
When Randall Park’s comedy “Shortcomings” was released on Netflix earlier this year, Bay Area viewers not only got...
August 4, 2023
LA Times reviews the movie adaption of Shortcomings
For fans of Tomine’s work, the most mesmerizing thing may be the near-seamless way the book becomes a meticulous story...
August 1, 2023
The New Yorker interviews Adrian Tomine
The latest comics-to-film adaptation, “Shortcomings,” Randall Park’s directorial début, will be released on Augus...
February 20, 2023
Randall Park, director of Shortcomings, in The New Yorker!
I don’t remember when I first saw Randall Park, only that one day he seemed to be everywhere.
Park, a forty-eight-yea...
February 20, 2023
Asian Movie Pulse interviews Randall Park, director of Shortcomings
“Fresh Off the Boat” star Randall Park turned heads at Sundance this year with his directorial debut, “Shortcoming...
Adrian talks Optic Nerve at SPX
Adrian Tomine’s comic book series Optic Nerve, initially self-published while the artist was still in high school, marked the emergence of…
Adrian discusses New York Drawings
The New Yorker cover artist describes his illustrations and drawings at Skylight Books in Los Feliz, CA
Tatsumi in conversation with Tomine
Over 40 years ago Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons for storytelling in comics by using the visual language of manga to…
Preorder Q&A to enter the Adrian Tomine Sweepstakes
Preorder Q&A to enter the Adrian Tomine Sweepstakes contest and win one of 5 prize packs including a grand prize that…
Announcing Shortcomings: A Screenplay by Adrian Tomine
We’re announcing Spring 2024 titles! Next up is Shortcomings: A Screenplay by Adrian Tomine. The major motion picture adaptation of Adrian…
The Summer of Shortcomings
If you haven’t already heard, Adrian Tomine’s beloved graphic novel Shortcomings has been adapted into a film directed by Randall Park…