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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Drawn and Quarterly | | Edition: | 1st Softcover Edst Edition | | Page Count: | 102 Pages | | Publication Date: | October 01, 1998 | | Sales Rank: | 126,541th |
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Product Description
Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series optic nerve, this book offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers. Adrian Tomine was born on May 31, 1974. He has produced two other book collections, 32 Stories and Summer Blonde, and he continues to publish new material in his comic book series Optic Nerve. The stories in this book have been translated into various languages worldwide. Tomine's comics and illustrations have also appeared in a variety of magazines, including The New Yorker, Esquire, Rolling Stone, Details, Fast Company, and Giant Robot. He lives in Berkeley, California. Collecting the first four issues of Adrian Tomine's acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve, Sleepwalk offers sixteen concise, haunting tales of modern life. The characters here appear to be well-adjusted on the surface, but Tomine takes us deeper into their lives, subtly examining their struggle to connect with friends and lovers. "Tomine works with the deft, terse strokes of a short story writer, following a small idea or a simple notion to its logical, and usually poetic conclusion. [He] has a cinematic knack for finding the proper composition, the telling angle to capture these pensive instants . . . Your heart skips along with those of Tomine's characters."—New City Literary Supplement "Perfect, emotionally absorbing stories . . . Restrained text and mesmerizing art."—Shift "Tomine has rocketed to prominence among America's young cartoonists . . . In these narratives, we see a keep, expanding intelligence at work . . . untempered by compromise."—Wired "A perfect post-Valentine gift for overlooked hearts everywhere . . . Reading Optic Nerve is like peeking into someone's diary or flipping through your favorite photo album."—The New York Daily News "Optic Nerve mines the depths of human expression and emotion . . . Tomine has the eye of a director, skillfully guiding readers through frames and sequences with fluid transitions and unique angles . . . An emotional whirlpool."—The Rocket "Brilliant . . . we know we're in the hands of a major young comics artist—visually gripping and emotionally challenging."—Kirkus Reviews "Tomine is a master of pseudorealistic stories in the tradition of Raymond Carver. This understated, black-and-white collection should satisfy fiction aficionados in any medium."—Library Journal |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 16 reviews)
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Mesmerizing by deaner73 (Palo Alto, CA USA)  5 Stars
April 16, 2009
Adrian Tomine's, "Sleepwalk: and other stories," is a mesmerizing collection of graphic novel vignettes collected from issues #1-4 of his 'Optic Nerve' comic series published from 1995-1998.
Even though this slim book runs at 102 pages it still crams in 16 of Tomine's stories and while some of them are as short as 1 page and as long as a dozen, they all feel deeper in scope thanks to Tomine's trademarks of brilliant and haunting storytelling and characters contrasted by a seeminly innocuous art style.
If you like gritty tales of heartbreak, lonliness and angst that cuts straight to the bone, this volume is a great introduction to Tomine's ouevre. Fantastic read from start to finish.
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A good collection of short graphic stories. by Julia V. H. (Ohio)  4 Stars
May 27, 2007
An interesting collection of short stories in graphic novella form, with a particular emphasis on relationships and lesbians (not nescessarily at the same time), and interactions during the time of and around sleep and dreaming. Tomine's drawing style is aesthetically pleasing, and he is creative in developing his characters and their distinctive traits in a short space (about a page or two each). My absolute favorite in this one is on page 26, "Lunch Break." It's so concise, yet wonderfully emotional and layered.
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... by Uhnghrid (Everywhere) 5 Stars
February 12, 2007
Tomine captures social isolation and the pointless life so perfectly that this book is probably one of the most depressing things ever written. It's amazingly well-accomplished in being what it is, however. Just don't read this if the ability to create several days of melancholy is NOT one of the things you appreciate in a book...
I'd also recommend Summer Blonde, though I personally think Sleepwalk is somewhat better. Tomine has a tendency to make stories that end abruptly without conclusions of any sort, so the shorter format is a little more suiting.
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Adrian Tomine Saves Comics by B. Patrick (SLC, UT)  3 Stars
August 26, 2005
I wish there were more comics out there like Adrian Tomine's. The characters in the stories collected here could almost be characters in a Belle and Sebastian song and those are some of my favorite kinds of characters. There are only a handful of artists doing thoughtful, literary work in comics and Tomine is one of them. In a medium with limitless possibilities Tomine is among the few trying to explore them.
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Disparate by All-access Customer (Baltimore, MD) 5 Stars
July 25, 2003
"Disparate" is really the only word one could use to describe Tomine's writing style. His depictions of the inner pains that many of us know, especially from our late teens and early twenties, are almost painful to read with all of the insecurities that they bring flooding back. This angst ridden collection of stories is the collected works of his first eight editions of the comic book "Optic Nerve" which Tomine produces yearly. Sleepwalker is an excellent introduction to his work, where as his other trade paper back "32 stories" is a collection of his earliest work and while some of the stories are very amusing, it's also very raw, and out of the normal vein of work Tomine is known for.
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