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Drawn & Quarterly
October 2007
On Sale: October 2, 2007
104 pages
ISBN: 1897299168
EAN: 9781897299166
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Graphic Novel
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine’s first long-form graphic novel,
is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese
American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country
search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along
the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and
racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating,
irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of
painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor
to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan
following and has earned status as one of the most widely
acclaimed cartoonists of our time. Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine’s iconic comic book
series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney’s
Quarterly Concern #13.
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