The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cart

WINNER OF THE 2021 EISNER AWARDS - Best Graphic Memoir and Best Publication DesignAdrian Tomine has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime. ZADIE SMITHA hilarious and occasionally heartbreaking memoir. Irish TimesThrough 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! Youre that cartoonist!Self-deprecating honest and above all else humorous Tomine mines his conflicted relationship with comics and writing and people at large and once again animates the absurdities of modern life and how we choose to live it. 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 MooreA wonderful book about feeling morbidly self-conscious while also longing to connect with other people even though it doesnt always?i.e. usually doesnt?work out the way one wants it to. It perfectly captures what its like to be a cartoonist and also what its like to be a person. -- Roz ChastA painfully honest and often hilarious view behind the curtain of the glamorous life of a cartoonist. Tomine draws on lifes stresses embarrassments and achievements as he goes through an evolution of self-awareness. A must-read for Tomine fans and all aspiring cartoonists. -- Richard McGuireI couldnt put this book down. Tomines 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 HanawaltA charming occasionally maddening ledger of our professions unrelenting parade of indignities. -- Michael DeForgeIn 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 GharibTomine reveals himself again a master of self-satire as his formidably healthy artists 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 reviewTomine 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 Tomines 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 TimesIn his latest bookThe 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. ―ObserverHes 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 IssueWith wit and brutal honesty Tomine examines the absurdity of the comic-book industry and his own fragile ego . . . Does creating comics make you atrue artist? Judging by this latest release Tomine makes a compelling case that it does. ―GuardianBy using humor and framing his trajectory via professional and personal setbacks and moments of mortification the cumulative effect ofLoneliness is mesmerizing funny and