Review
In this heartfelt and beautifully crafted work, Adrian Tomine presents the most honest and insightful portrait you will ever see of an industry that I can no longer bear to be associated with. -- Alan Moore
A wonderful book about feeling morbidly self-conscious while also longing to connect with other people, even though it doesn't always?i.e. usually doesn't?work out the way one wants it to. It perfectly captures what it's like to be a cartoonist, and also what it's like to be a person. -- Roz Chast
A painfully honest and often hilarious view behind the curtain of the 'glamorous' life of a cartoonist. Tomine draws on life's stresses, embarrassments, and achievements as he goes through an evolution of self-awareness. A must-read for Tomine fans and all aspiring cartoonists. -- Richard McGuire
I couldn't put this book down. Tomine's vulnerability and willingness to share the cringiest moments of his life (ranging from juicy to uproarious to deeply healing) are a reminder to be braver, because what have you got to lose? -- Lisa Hanawalt
A charming, occasionally maddening ledger of our profession's unrelenting parade of indignities. -- Michael DeForge
In this deeply self-aware, darkly funny memoir, Tomine recounts the highlights of his career through a series of cringe-worthy encounters, and readers hardly need to be a world-famous cartoonist to relate. -- Malaka Gharib
Tomine reveals himself again a master of self-satire as his formidably healthy artist's ego and attendant anxiety butt up against a largely indifferent world. This merciless memoir delivers laughter with a wince, to the point of tears. ― Publishers Weekly, starred review
Tomine, who is perhaps the John Cheever of comics (in the way they both excavate the human heart), shows how our lives are less tidy than [the] common memoir arc. ― Lit Hub
[Tomine is] master of the form . . . His seductively clean line makes for instantly romantic images . . . But the key to Tomine's fiction is the rage and fragility beneath the pristine compositions . . . Constructed in a loose, appealingly humble style on a Moleskine-like grid, the 26 vignettes here trace a lifetime of neuroses and humiliations, from Fresno, 1982, to Brooklyn, 2018, blurring the line between character trait and occupational hazard. ― New York Times
In his latest book, The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Adrian Tomine turns himself into the everyman of writerly mortification, cataloguing all of the above indignities and many more besides in such brilliant and toe-curling detail. ― Observer
He's the outstanding graphic novelist of his generation . . . Tomine writes about Gen X angst and isolation like no one else, and here he brings his acute insight and minimalist style to his own life. ― Big Issue
With wit and brutal honesty, Tomine examines the absurdity of the comic-book industry and his own fragile ego . . . Does creating comics make you a true artist? Judging by this latest release, Tomine makes a compelling case that it does. ― Guardian
By using humor and framing his trajectory via professional and personal setbacks and moments of mortification, the cumulative effect of Loneliness is mesmerizing, funny, and deeply honest. ― NPR
A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir. ― Irish Times
Product Description
WINNER OF THE 2021 EISNER AWARDS - Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication Design
'Adrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.' ZADIE SMITH
'A hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir.' Irish Times
Through a series of exquisitely observed autobiographical sketches, Adrian Tomine explores his life - from an early moment on the playground being bullied, to a more recent experience, lying on a gurney in the hospital, and having the nurse say 'Hey! You're that cartoonist!'
Self-deprecating, honest, and above all else, humorous, Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing, and people at large, and onc
