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New York Drawings
ILLUSTRATIONS ANDCOMICSFROMTHE NEW YORKER COVER ARTIST AND AWARD-WINNING CARTOONIST
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.
Adrian Tomine’s i...more
Two strangers, both reading the same novel, share a fleeting glance between passing subway cars. A bookstore owner locks eyes with a neighbor as she receives an Amazon package. Strangers are united by circumstance as they wait on the subway stairs for a summer storm to pass.
Adrian Tomine’s i...more
Hardcover, 176 pages
Published
October 2nd 2012
by Drawn and Quarterly
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Adrian Tomine has a clean, simple and elegant style of art, one that goes well with The New Yorker. This book has illustrations he created from 1999 for the magazine, and also some unpublished works that includes a few comics and a few sketches he did on the subway. While some pieces capture scenes of New York, the rest are more editorial illustrations.
The art is beautiful. I like the toned down use of colours, the strong black and lovely line work. He has a rather time...more
I’m a big Adrian Tomine fan. However, I will admit, I skipped his newest graphic novel, Scenes From an Impending Marriage. Flipping through it, it seemed so unlike any Optic Nerve. Like, not even a whiff of it. Rather, it appeared to be the ramblings of a married man on married life. Well, that’s a bit harsh. It just looked like he lost his bite. And while all of this and that may very well be true (or not true at all), what I do know for sure is that his work for The New Yorker, compiled in wha...more
If you’ve ever been to New York, you’ll know the place is incredible and majestic and so recognisable from a million movies and tv shows and photographs and paintings and songs that you’ll find yourself stopping in the middle of the street just to marvel at a corner you’ve seen somewhere before. It’s like you’ve stepped into that work of art, you are in that movie, and you are expecting that character to walk past at any moment. Adrian Tomine creates moments like this in his art. Scenes that any...more
I've followed Adrian Tomine mostly through his work for the New Yorker and this book collects a lot of that work and some odds and ends to form a great starting point for his drawings, sketches, illustrations & comic pieces. I'm a fan. Tomine really captures the little moments of city life as his subjects wander through the lonely city with whatever distracts them from the world around them. Looking at the work in a couple of short settings, you can gauge the themes of his work and one of wh...more
This collection intrigued me from the cover, which was actually a The New Yorker cover. It shows a young woman on a subway train reading a book, looking through a window to see a young man on another subway train going in the opposite direction, reading the same book. I liked the image, and was interested to see what else he had done.
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a sectio...more
The book is structured with the images, placed nicely on the page, with just their titles, where they were published, and the date of publication. There is a sectio...more
Very enjoyable and insightful collection of Tomine's work for the New Yorker; the book also features artwork and sketches marking his time as an actual resident(He's a Brooklynite) in the "City That Never Sleeps." In this tome we get to see the somewhat-introverted artist take on pop culture via various spot illustrations, but the real gravy are his standout covers for the magazine and his sketchbook renderings which showcase Tomine's ability to convey dramatic perceptivity with style and extrem...more
This book is stunning. It compiles mostly Tomine's work from The New Yorker (So THAT'S where all those cool images come from!) and a few strips and sketches and other work he's done since he moved to New York. As a super fan of his comics, I am delighted to fill in the holes with this book. He does a lot of contract work (my favorite being the Super Girls panel for the Weezer poster way back when) I don't read The New Yorker, so I would never have put this part of his career together without thi...more
this is great. i love tomine's drawings and i really enjoyed the descriptions too, the introductory cartoon about feeling uncomfortable at a party is wonderful.
like lots of other people who've read this on goodreads, i didn't realise there were notes at the end of the book to go with the drawings until i'd finished... i thought that was ok tho, as it's nice to see the illustrations on their own and then i could read what they were drawn for afterwards and look through it all again.
like lots of other people who've read this on goodreads, i didn't realise there were notes at the end of the book to go with the drawings until i'd finished... i thought that was ok tho, as it's nice to see the illustrations on their own and then i could read what they were drawn for afterwards and look through it all again.
Beautiful edition of a very clever artist's work that I'm not sure I'd previously been exposed to (the New Yorker is frightfully expensive to buy in Australia), or at least if I have seen I didn't have a name to ascribe to it (his work reminds me of Daniel Clowes, so I could have assumed I was looking at Clowes when it was actually Tomine). As others have noted, it was a bit difficult to read because the notes to each piece were located in the back, but it is a minor quibble, as it may have been...more
Not usually a big fan of his early work, such as Optic Nerve. But this was a short, funny, good little read. Nice artwork too, his composition reminds me of a photograph....Upon further contemplation, it must be tough being affluent, living in New York, writing for the New Yorker, and having to deal with people who read kindles rather than books....Yes, indeed the qualms of modern man....
This is a fun book to flip through. The author captures scenes that are quintessentially New York and has a style that I really like. I liked the juxtaposition of finished, published drawings with sketchbook ones. I would have rated the book higher if there was more insight into the drawings - what attracted his attention to a particular scene for example.
For some reason, the captions for the sketches and illustrations are all in the back of the book, which I didn't realize until after I'd looked at all the artwork. So then I had to start from the beginning, flipping back to the appropriate caption for each one. It was pretty frustrating and greatly impacted my enjoyment of the book.
Lovely, wide ranging collection of Tomine's New Yorker covers, drawing, and cartoons. I'm certain I've seen many of these before, but collected in this fashion it was a way to discover them anew.
Some interesting ideas and it was cool to see the art work before it being type set and than seeing it like it was published.
Adrian Tomine is a spectacular and insightful artist, this book is a real treat.
Interesting illustrations. Great style. Not a big fan of the New Yorker but maybe I'll start reading it more?
Have you ever felt nostalgic for a place you've never lived?
Loved it!
This is literally a book of illustrations (with a few comics sprinkled in), so it took me about half an hour to ~read. I enjoyed Tomine's subway scenes the most; I felt it really captured what one goes through when he or she is people-watching during the ride. I too sometimes come up with bios and personalities of the passengers I'm observing.
May 22, 2013
Maisarah
marked it as to-read
May 19, 2013
Jarrett Fuller
marked it as wishlist
May 17, 2013
Mike Van til
marked it as to-read
May 08, 2013
Elaina Peters
marked it as to-read
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