





Hardcover, 624 pages, 10 x 7 inches.
This Tekkonkinkreet: Black & White 30th Anniversary Edition, by acclaimed manga artist Taiyo Matsumoto, is restored to its original right-to-left orientation and features all the original color pages, a full-color foldout poster, and a brand new afterword by the author.
In the somewhere-sprawl of Treasure Town, two young boys, Black and White, rule the streets. Like avatars of the city itself, they are its will and its voice, full of love and compassion, as well as danger and violence. As they leap from rooftop to rooftop, from lamppost to lamppost, nothing escapes their notice. But the city is changing beneath their feet as a yakuza-backed corporate development moves in. When the gangsters make a play to remove Black and White, the boys push back. The police have an interest in Black and White as well, trying to make sure things don't get out of hand—but things will. A battle begins between corruption and innocence, a struggle for the soul of the city itself, that will change Black and White and the city around them forever.
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #02
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.
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #03
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #04
Paperback, 10" x 6.8", 24 pages.
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.
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #05
Paperback, 10" x 6.8", 25 pages.
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.
Adrian Tomine - Optic Nerve #06
Paperback, 10" x 6.8", 25pp
The critically acclaimed graphic comic Optic Nerve from artist Adrian Tomine. With eight bonus pages, this extra-long issue features “Hawaiian Getaway”, a single story comprised of thirteen chapters. Inventive in structure, the story details the events in a woman’s life as circumstances turn her previously complacent existence upside-down, and her behavior grows more eccentric and erratic.