A few months ago, I was thrilled to read that Adrian Tomine was putting out another issue of Optic Nerve, the offbeat mini-comic I had "discovered" as a teenager. I started to get into underground and ...

Upon acquisition of Adrian Tomine’s most recent collection of Optic Nerve Comics, Summer Blonde, I was fairly peeing in my pants with excitement. Those who are familiar with Tomine’s work will ...

Though he just turned 30, Adrian Tomine is an old hand at cartooning. As a teenager in 1991 he started xeroxing his Optic Nerve comic book in print runs of 25 to be dropped off at Sacramento ...