Cover for "Scrapbook", a subtle diamond pattern on burgundy solid background with a small rectangular illustration of a couple on a motorcycle, tho only their faces are seen.
Page excerpt for "Scrapbook" featuring a comic panel of teenagers playing rock music in a bedroom.
Page excerpt for "Scrapbook" featuring a comic panel of teenagers gathered around in a record store, looking at CDs.
Cover for "Scrapbook", a subtle diamond pattern on burgundy solid background with a small rectangular illustration of a couple on a motorcycle, tho only their faces are seen.
Page excerpt for "Scrapbook" featuring a comic panel of teenagers playing rock music in a bedroom.
Page excerpt for "Scrapbook" featuring a comic panel of teenagers gathered around in a record store, looking at CDs.

Adrian Tomine - Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990-2004

$ 24.95

Softcover, 8.5" x 12", 208 pages, Color and Black & White

Comics, illustrations (including album covers!), sketches, and notes explaining it all. Adrian Tomine is one of our heroes, and probably one of your favorite band's heroes. This collection is kind of like "Prehistory of the Far Side" for Optic Nerve. It is absolutely essential.

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.

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Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #02

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Softcover, 24 pages. Measures 6.8 x 10.3 inches.

Tomine offers four stories in this second issue: A lonely woman tries to find the man leaving cryptic messages for her in the Personals section of the newspaper in "The Connecting Thread" (4 pages); in "Summer Job" (15 pages), a teenager reluctantly applies for a job at a photocopy shop and then proceeds to waste the following two months; "Pink Frosting" (2 pages) provides a vivid and unsettling glimpse at the suggestion of violence murmuring beneath the surface during a traffic altercation; in "Layover" (4 pages), a missed flight forces a man to ponder his strained relationships with his lover and friends as he discreetly walks through his neighborhood waiting, afraid to announce to anyone that he has not left yet. 24 pages. First Printing: November 1995; Second Printing: February 1997. Third Printing: October 2001.

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Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #03

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The critically acclaimed graphic comic Optic Nerve from artist Adrian Tomine. Three stories are featured here: in “Six Day Cold” (11 pages), a man spends a tense, awkward evening with his ex-girlfriend after she comes over to his apartment to help nurse his sickness; “Fourth of July” (7 pages) recounts the story of a young boy who isolates himself as his parents are being separated; in “Hazel Eyes” (6 pages), a young woman tries to recreate her life after she realizes she has nothing in common with her friends.

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The critically acclaimed graphic comic Optic Nerve from artist Adrian Tomine. Adrian Tomine’s first full-length story is featured here. In “Alter Ago” (25 pages), a successful young writer becomes obsessed with finding the girl he had a crush on in high school; things become more complicated when he has to hide his strange obsession from his current girlfriend.

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