Q&A

“Part advice manual for aspiring cartoonists, part memoir. Tomine… reflects candidly and wittily on topics including the solitary nature of cartooning, writing to artist idols, parenthood’s influence on his art, and adapting a graphic novel into a screenplay.” —The New Yorker

“Q&A is something of a how-to book [by one of] the most idiosyncratic and interesting comics creators around [as well as] an impressionistic self-portrait… As in his graphic work, Tomine is self-deprecating and often very funny.” —David Ulin, Los Angeles Times

“Perfect for anyone who’s a curious, budding creative spirit.” —Hannah Bae, San Francisco Chronicle

“The book is at its best [when] Tomine, one of the biggest names in indie comics… really delves into what it is like to dedicate your life to comics.” —Bryan Hood, Vanity Fair

“Delightfully inspiring.” —Steven Heller, PRINT Magazine

“A cartoonist’s gentle and charming epistolary memoir… Tomine’s writing is compassionate, empathetic, and tongue-in-cheek, and his narratorial voice has the intimate, confessional frankness of a good friend.” —Kirkus Reviews

“With sincerity and self-deprecating humor, reading Q&A feels like having a chat in a coffee shop.” —Blogcritics

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.

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