Optic Nerve #13
2013
First Published
4.04
Average Rating
40
Number of Pages
Part of Series
Optic Nerve #13 contains: "Go Owls" is a dark comedy about 12-step programs, drug dealing, and minor league baseball. "Translated, from the Japanese" is the diary of a young Japanese mother caught between her home country and a new, strange land, and hovering on the precipice of divorce. And "Winter, 2012", is an autobiographical glimpse into Tomine's home life and his ongoing struggles with the modern world.
Avg Rating
4.04
Number of Ratings
100
5 STARS
29%
4 STARS
48%
3 STARS
21%
2 STARS
2%
1 STARS
0%
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Author
Adrian Tomine
Author · 22 books
Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series Optic Nerve. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his graphic novel "Shortcomings" was a New York Times Notable Book of 2007. His next release, "Killing and Dying" will be published by Drawn and Quarterly in October 2015. Since 1999, Tomine has been a regular contributor to The New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.
