The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonistis a graphic memoir that follows Tomine - whose name is mispronounced in one encounter after another - from his earliest days as a self-publishing cartoonist to his present-day career as a graphic novelist with several comics collections, books, and a plethora of New Yorkerand Paris Reviewcovers to his name. (If I, too, were a cartoonist - I am not geometrically repetitive doodles are the best I can do - I might draw an image of myself, hand raised in a wave, looking directly at the viewer, a fourth-wall break, with a speech bubble above my head reading: "Hi, Adrian.
He might furrow his brow, worried about where I'm going with this. It's rare that I begin reviews so self-consciously, but since The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonistby Adrian Tomine spends some time on the relationship between artist and critic and audience, I can't help but be especially aware of Tomine potentially reading these words.
Anyone who has ever heard me talk about being a book critic (whether by choice or as an innocent, no-doubt-extremely-bored bystander) knows that I am passionate about this work and take it extremely seriously.
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