Comic Artist Reference Library: Adrian Tomine

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to the Comic Artist Reference Library. I originally created this as a place to store artist's images that inspire me when doing my own comic book work. Hopefully it will be useful to you as well. The nature of this site is not to include every comic book artist ever known, and there are dozens if not hundreds of tremendously talented artists whose work will not be featured here, but my goal in being so selective is to help others to discover artists and images that will help unlock their own creativity and introduce them to work they were perhaps unfamiliar with before. This type of thing is always a "work in progress", so please feel free to e-mail me suggestions, pictures, or anything that might help it to be more useful. Thanks. -Eric

Adrian Tomine has a uniquely fresh ability to capture the subtlety of emotion and understated moments that make up much of the truth in life. His stories are witty and humorous, but without being tactical. He started publishing his own mini comic "Optic Nerve" at the age of sixteen and by the time he was in college Drawn and Quaterly offered to publish his comic for him. Since then he published several books and collections of work, and done dozens of cover illustrations for The New Yorker and other magazines.