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Summer Blonde (Optic Nerve #5-8)

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Adrian Tomine’s cult comix series Optic Nerve is finally collected into one sharp-looking hardcover volume. Described as the Raymond Carver of comix, Tomine constructs tales of emotional disconnection with an ear for painfully real dialogue. Combined with his deft black and white depictions of urbane lifestyles, Tomine’s fans have often accused him of eavesdropping in on t...more

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Published June 1st 2003 by Drawn and Quarterly

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Mar 28, 2013 Paul rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novelly-stuff

I really like those quiet Sundancy American indie movies like Wendy and Lucy, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Winter’s Bone, Frozen River, Ghost World, Gigantic, Go, Happiness, Humpday and Please Give – even when they don’t knock your socks off the atmosphere of teetering-on-the-edge-of-melancholia is just right for me, it’s like a bottle of my favourite bootleg hooch*; and Summer Blonde is exactly one of those movies, in graphic novel form. I loved the bittersweet tang of all four stories here, and t...more

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Jan 14, 2008 Rory rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels-comics

SHUT UP, Adrian Tomine. I get that your characters are all you, and that they're all your girlfriends, and that they're all lonely and disconnected and pathetic. I get it, now SHUT UP. And endings? I know they're not hip, but you could humour us with some, couldn't you?

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Aug 30, 2008 Eli rated it 2 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

The last story gets three stars. In general I had issues with this book though. It seems as if the medium with which Tomine tells his stories really stifles any progression the stories might make. Everyone comes across as really two-dimensional and, I promise I'm not trying to be cute here, everything is so black and white. The guys are either pathetic, awkward losers/chauvinistic jocks and the girls are all masochistic sluts with low self esteem. There is also a lot of blankness to the way Tomi...more

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May 13, 2007 Michael Alexander rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: fans of trendy sad bastard comix like Ghost World or Jimmy Corrigan

Such a right-on look at urban/suburban loneliness. We all may not have felt this way in our high school and college and 20-something years, but I sure have at times. Sure, the characters are whiny and self-pitying, but so are people who actually go through those situations. This is not as Raymond Carver-redux as everybody is claiming--for one thing, the situations are a little more unusual, where Carver really gets great mileage out of the banal and the utterly ordinary. No, this feels like clas...more

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Jul 22, 2010 Benjamin rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: first-edition, edition, 2009-read, fiction, family, coming, of, graphic-novel

Much like Short Comings in style and general story arc but split up into four vignettes. The flap on the jacket is accurate. Mr. Tomine does have a knack for drawing all sorts of facial expressions, but particularly annoyed ones. These stories did remind me of certian people I have known in my life. People that I haven't thought about in a long time. Very subtle characterizations that I have never been able to put my finger on came to life again in some of these stories. [return][return]I enjoye...more

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Feb 09, 2009 Yofish rated it 4 of 5 stars

Written by the Wall Street Journal Education writer. Had maybe enough for a newspaper article. It is his position that US colleges are not meritocracies because of legacy admission, sports (especially rich, white sports) scholarships, and going after children of wealth in order to increase endowments. But he doesn't really make the case--he mostly states it and assumes that you must agree. Nor does he make a good case about why I should care, either as a Yale alum or as a US citizen. Some of it...more

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Dec 20, 2008 Sharm Alagaratnam rated it 3 of 5 stars

Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine was my most recent comic book recommendation. The four stories contained within each encapsulate a little slice of California Gen X life in all its urban loneliness. In fact, what I liked most about them was that there weren't tidy endings to any of the stories. Additionally, anyone who is at all Chinese or knows anything about (migrant) Chinese culture may identify very much with Hillary in 'Hawaiian Getaway'.

I found a surprisingly good review of the book by Time...more Summer Blonde by Adrian Tomine was my most recent comic book recommendation. The four stories contained within each encapsulate a little slice of California Gen X life in all its urban loneliness. In fact, what I liked most about them was that there weren't tidy endings to any of the stories. Additionally, anyone who is at all Chinese or knows anything about (migrant) Chinese culture may identify very much with Hillary in 'Hawaiian Getaway'.

I found a surprisingly good review of the book by Time magazine's Andrew D. Arnold, so I'll leave you in his good hands for this one.

Adrian Tomine's 'Summer Blonde'

Some people hate Adrian Tomine's work. All they see are cute girls and angsty-guys in short, enigmatic portraits of the West Coast's slowly-aging Generation X. But they don't get it. Eleven years ago Tomine (pronounced TOE-mean-ay) began self-publishing his comic, "Optic Nerve" when he was just sixteen, stunning the comixcenti with his mature style. It was soon picked up by the classy Canadian publisher Drawn and Quarterly, and the company has just collected the last four issues into a gorgeous hardcover, "Summer Blonde" (132 pp.; $24.95). The dust jacket, with its cut-out circle that lets a pretty girl peek through, should clue you in on how to read these stories: look underneath.

What makes Tomine's work difficult for some is the naturalism. He tells stories that feel more like short exposures of ordinary people's lives, rather than plot-heavy adventures or overt comedy. These stories don't begin and end so much as fade in and out. Tomine explores nuance of character as revealed by life's more typical crises: losing a job, having an annoying neighbor or flirting with someone you shouldn't. The best of the four tales in this collection, "Hawaiian Getaway," features Hillary Chan, a twenty-something child of Asian immigrants who loses her job and starts a downward spiral of guilt and self-loathing. Driven to distraction by a demanding, critical mother and a patronizing, "successful" younger sister, she begins making increasingly nasty prank calls to the payphone outside her window. Strangely, one of these results in a date with a decent guy. Will she see him again? It ends as she waits to find out.

I worry about Hillary in a way that I don't worry about other fictional characters. Tomine creates Hillary and the other protagonists with enough complexity to make her totally believable. She's not easy to like either, which is another thing that some readers may have a problem with. All four stories in "Summer Blonde" focus on rather negative people's inability to relate to others. "Alter Ego" tells of a young writer who begins neglecting his girlfriend for the sake of an even younger fan. In the titular tale, a lonely nerd fixates on a card shop girl who cheats on her boyfriend. Lastly, "Bomb Scare" gets right to the heart of being socially irrelevent in high-school. Each story reveals the secret life of the sad and alienated. If anything, the book can be criticized for a kind of thematic stasis. Each story feels like different versions of the same thing. But for some, that thing is their life.

Tomine's drawings cap the naturalist style of the stories. He goes strictly for realism, using a fine pen to get all the details. You can even read the menu board behind the coffee counter. Angles, framing, and pace are all, for better or worse, at the service of the characters and story. While he may not win awards for graphic innovation, Tomine has a real talent for easy comix storytelling.

It would be too bad if the ambiguity and sadness of "Summer Blonde" scared you off. Adrian Tomine won't entertain you with a lot of snappy tricks. He's on to something that other comix artists haven't captured — a slacker generation growing older but not wiser.(less)

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Apr 03, 2013 Andrew rated it 3 of 5 stars

I suppose my reaction to the stories in this book is largely dependent on my hope that Tomine is truly critiquing the "nice guy" types who are the protagonists of his stories. Making a character loathsome is not the same thing as calling into question the basic validity of their self-image (for evidence that the two aren't necessarily the same thing, see Philip Roth or Martin Amis or Richard Ford).

The way that most of Tomine's female characters remain locked in the terms of manic-pixie-dream-gi...more

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Jun 25, 2011 Fin rated it 1 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Adrian Tomine and Michael Alexander.

Recommended to Fin by: Look at that cover! And the title! You KNOW this book is going to have a stalker in it.

Shelves: pictures-prevailing

It's kind of pathetic that I feel more motivated to bitch about a book I didn't like than to convince y'all to read an amazing one, but let's get bitching!
The back cover has a bunch of positive reviews, but I really just didn't like this book.
The art was fine, although when he didn't color people's irises in, they looked like soulless monsters who were never really looking at anything.
Almost every character was a creepy asshat, and there weren't any endings, either. If he did that for one of th...more

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May 06, 2011 Jess rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: graphic-novels, read-in-2011

Oh. Despite really not liking Shortcomings , Summer Blonde has redeemed Adrian Tomine in my eyes. I think his characters, who may strike unaccustomed readers as obnoxious or intentionally abrasive, are more tolerable in these brief glimpses. Again, the artwork is clean, detailed and subtly expressive, with that rare quality in graphic fiction of looking like actual people you may pass in the street.

These are not definitive moments in these peoples lives, they're not transformative moments, but t...more

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Feb 05, 2011 Géraldine rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, bd, usa

Lu en français
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Quatre nouvelles en image

*Alter Ego*
Un écrivain en mal d'inspiration retourne sur les traces de son adolescence suite à la réception d'un mot d'une fan qui est peut-être son ancien amour d'adolescence.
*Blonde platine*
Un jeune homme en difficultés relationnelles observe et jalouse son voisin serial seducteur
*Escapade hawaïenne*
Une jeune femme dite "bizarre" tente vaille que vaille de trouver sa place dans la société et, si possible, l'amour.
*Alerte à la bombe*
Un adolescent inad...more

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Nov 07, 2010 Artur Coelho rated it 5 of 5 stars

Blonde Platine, Summer Blonde no original, é um livro que reune quatro histórias publicadas originalmente no comic Optic Nerve, um comic influente e inovador que Tomine publica desde os seus dezasseis anos (nada como génios precoces).

Blonde Platine é composto por quatro contos em BD. No primeiro, Alter Ego, somos introduzidos ao mundo de um escritor que luta débilmente para escrever o seu segundo livro. Enquanto busca inspiração, envolve-se com a irmã mais nova de uma antiga paixão platónica dos...more Blonde Platine, Summer Blonde no original, é um livro que reune quatro histórias publicadas originalmente no comic Optic Nerve, um comic influente e inovador que Tomine publica desde os seus dezasseis anos (nada como génios precoces).

Blonde Platine é composto por quatro contos em BD. No primeiro, Alter Ego, somos introduzidos ao mundo de um escritor que luta débilmente para escrever o seu segundo livro. Enquanto busca inspiração, envolve-se com a irmã mais nova de uma antiga paixão platónica dos tempos do liceu. Ao fazê-lo, perde todos aqueles que o rodeiam. Perde a namorada e os seus amigos mais íntimos, e a simples noção de ter algum caso com a jovem rapariga deixa-o revoltado. Ele não procurava sexo, ou uma nova relação. Apenas se deixou enredar por reminiscências nostálgicas, aqueles pensamentos do tipo "o que é que teria acontecido se...". No segundo conto, Blonde Platine, somos introduzidos ao mundo semi-inocente de um individuo desajustado que tem uma fixação por uma rapariga que trabalha numa loja de postais. Esta rapariga, longe de ser inocente, anda de relação em relação, namorando com vários homens ao mesmo tempo, procurando neles apenas o que lhe interessa. A situação degrada-se quando começa a namorar o vizinho do lado do seu admirador da loja de postais, um músico sem talento, que só se interessa pelas mulheres até as ter levado para a cama duas ou três vezes. Em Escapade Hawaienne, o terceiro conto, somos introduzidos ao mundo solitário de uma rapariga descendente de chineses que vive na califórnia para escapar a uma mãe demasiado crítica da vida da filha e a uma irmã em ajustada que conseguiu o sucesso com que os seus pais sonhavam, um bom emprego e uma vida suburbana. Despedida do emprego como operadora num centro de chamadas telefónicas por ter ousado identificar um cliente famoso, passa o seu tempo solitáriamente livre a fazer chamadas telefónicas para um telefone público, insultando aqueles que, incautos, pegam no auscultador. Paradoxalmente, é assim que conhece um rapaz simpático, com quem inicia um relacionamento. Quando o conto termina, ela recorda-se de férias que passou no Hawai enquanto garota, enquanto espera que aquele que poderá ser o seu novo namorado volte a falar com ela (nunca saberemos se o fez). Finalmente, Alerte a la Bombe é conto sobre adolescentes desajustados que sobrevivem no conformismo da vida do liceu. Um rapaz que todos suspeitam de ser homosseuxual e uma rapariga cujas carências emocionais a levam a ser a rapariga fácil utilizada por todos os rapazes que tentam ser machos para satisfazer os seus desejos sexuais acabam por se agregar, tornando-se amigos íntimos. No final do conto, a intimidade parece resvalar para uma relação mais profunda, mas o livro termina com o olhar paralizado do rapaz enquanto abraça a sua amiga semi-nua.

Definir a obra de Tomine não é tarefa fácil. A maioria das estórias são sobre alguma coisa, algum acontecimento que provocou mudanças, viragens, tragédias, apocalipses, alegrias. Mas a obra de Tomine não olha nessa direcção; antes, olha para uma espécie de não-espaço, o espaço dos pequenos acontecimentos quase sem valor que caracterizam a vida quotidiana. No fundo, são esses pequenos acontecimentos que moldam a nossa vida, que nos influenciam e que ditam o nosso comportamento. Este é um espaço que Tomine partilha com Raymond Carver, embora em campos literários diferentes (Carver é romancista), ou na obra pictórica de Edward Hopper. Nada de realismos fantásticos; trata-se aqui do realismo simples e desalentado dos pequenos pensamentos quotidianos.

Pelo conteúdo das suas histórias, Tomine é considerado um autor deprimente. Tomine concentra-se na fase da vida entre os dezoito e os trinta anos, concentra-se na busca de emoções perdidas por parte de personagens que nunca se ajustaram perfeitamente às exigências sociais que lhes são impostas. Também não cria histórias com princípios definidos e finais catárticos, felizes ou infelizes. Antes, retrata momentos aleatórios da vida das personagens, fazendo dos leitores uns voyeurs que entram na vida de uma personagem num qualquer momento e saem quando o autor quer, nunca nos deixando perceber a conclusão dos acontecimentos da vida dos personagens. Por outro lado, no seu trabalho Tomine parece colocar-nos frente a um espelho, em que através dos fait-divers que moldam a vida das suas personagens nos leva a reflectir sobre a nossa própria vida, e sobre os pequenos factores que nos levaram a percorrer os caminhos que a nossa vida percorre.

Em termos estéticos, Tomine é senhor de um traço de grande precisão. O seu desenho é realista, bastante dado a detalhes, e espartilha as vinhetas sobre a prancha de uma forma muito rigorosa, o que nos distancia ainda mais das personagens e das situações que retrata.(less)

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Aug 05, 2009 Nazary rated it 5 of 5 stars

This book is the reason I am happy that the graphic novel genre exists. It's good to see people breaking away from superheroes and into actualy storytelling with real people. The people in the book may be flat, but they're not boring. They're the typical freaks and geeks we meet in high school and adulthood, they all have their issues and they try to deal with them as best they can. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. What's important is that we can relate to these characters. They're not...more

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Jun 30, 2009 Jimmy rated it 2 of 5 stars

Recommended to Jimmy by: p.c. atl

Shelves: graphic-based, male, year-2000s

Summer blonde, some are not blonde, and some just fantasize about blondes. There's too much teen angst and white-boy self pity in these pages for me to really be very enthusiastic about it. All four protagonists are losers who are just creepy or bitter enough for you to not feel sorry for him/her. The first two stories suffered from this the most, I felt like the artist was writing about himself. The last two stories are an improvement. I liked the 3rd story the most, because it was about an asi...more

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Jul 05, 2011 jess rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011, graphic-novels

I enjoyed reading this book well enough, in that it was an adequately pleasurable reading experience. I didn't love it. I haven't thought about it since I finished it. It is not the sort of book that got its details stuck in the crevices of my brain. It's a portrait of a sort of urban/suburban middle-class existence in a specific place (Bay Area) at a specific time (now-ish) for a specific generation (Tomine-ish). The major themes come back to loneliness, isolation, pathetic desperation, etc. Th...more

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Jun 02, 2009 Emily rated it 5 of 5 stars

I read this book late one night on vacation. It was depressing but also really made me realize how honest Tomine is with his comics. "Hawaiian Getaway" was a lot like Dan Clowes "Ghost World" in that the character was increasingly bitter. Which makes me think that most graphic novelists have some edge of bitterness sloshing around in their brains.

Tomine captures the pre hipster era well in these stories, almost as if he can see it coming. I didn't see it coming. A book called "The Hipster Handb...more

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May 20, 2012 Francesca Lisette rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

A masterly progression from '32 Stories' & 'Sleepwalking', with added darkness & nuance to the tone of the narratives, even as Tomine's style becomes smoother & flatter. His prodigious talent is breathtaking; the precision of the frames has the grace of an art film. Ambiguity & clarity are strangely united in his denouements; moreover this book is gripping, genuinely hard to put down. I particularly loved 'Hawaiian Getaway', focusing on the misanthropic, broken-hearted sarcasm of...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Todd rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: library

A little procrastination at the Mountain View library.

I was disappointed in Shortcomings, but I still admire Adrian Tomine's drawings and technique so much that I'm happy just to leaf through a book of his drawings for an hour or so. I was happy that the four short stories in the book were excellent as well. The overarching theme is loneliness, especially that particular subclass of loneliness people experience when they are trying to figure out their place in life when it seems everyone else is...more

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May 29, 2012 agent zero rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: fumetti

La differenza tra Tomine e molti degli scrittori minimalisti contemporanei è che Tomine, oltre a saper disegnare bene, presumo meglio di loro, è bravo.

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Jul 16, 2010 Christina rated it 2 of 5 stars

struggling with how many stars. prob between 2 and 3. tomine has struck a chord with his writing/drawing style: these are well-crafted short stories with literary merit that could only be told the way he tells them. and he's really good at creating characters that feel true and alive and very sad...don't read it if you're in a bad mood or are feeling mildly depressed. because these characters are sad and they make me sad. and sometimes they're hard to like...much like some people in real life. i...more

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Jul 02, 2009 Janice rated it 5 of 5 stars

It's not a surprise that Adrian Tomine has been involved in introducing Tatsumi to a North American audience. Tomine's characters are young people in the 1990s and 2000s (not the '50s and '60s), and they live in San Francisco or Sacramento (not Japan), but like Tatsumi's characters they're terribly lonely and even desperate. They have very contemporary problems (boring dead-end jobs, the homophobia of classmates, crummy boyfriends/girlfriends), but like Tatsumi's characters they are sometimes dr...more

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Jul 21, 2007 Tao rated it 5 of 5 stars Recommends it for: Lorrie Moore

i cried on the last page not because it was sad but because it was so good.

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Jan 27, 2013 Elena Victoria rated it 3 of 5 stars

I definitely liked Shortcomings better. My favorite here was probably Bomb Scare (take away being: high school is fucking brutal). One pattern that I am definitely picking up with Tomine: all of the characters are deeply flawed in these really critical ways -- some of them are more endearing/redeeming than others. Another pattern being that he isn't big on...endings? A couple of these have very abrupt endings which doesn't so much leave you wanting more as confuses you and makes you question som...more

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Sep 19, 2010 Heidi Schutt rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: comix, short, stories, nancypearl, truth, love, life, emerging_adult

Adrian Tomine's Summer Blonde is a collection of four stories all delving (sometimes uncomfortably yet truthfully) into the loneliness that comes with love. On the front jacket flap of the book, Dan Raeburn says, "Tomine not only makes these people real, he makes them sympathetic, and that is what makes a true artist. That, and his ability to draw just about any facial expression in human experience." And that is exactly true. The expressions push the conversation past the point of awkward to un...more

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Apr 04, 2010 Jeff rated it 5 of 5 stars

Soon as i picked this book up i couldn't put it down until i finished reading it. Adrian tomine serves up another bunch of emotionally raw characters who feel original yet familiar at the same time.

The stories are short though you wish they were longer because you enjoy being with these characters and hope something positive for them, Bt tomine's talent is shown by saying so much. in such a short time and space.

The Endings are never quite satisfying and at times leave you asking a few question...more

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Mar 29, 2013 Veroni rated it 4 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

Tomine is a master at distilling human situations into an image. Every expression on a person's face, every background is thoughtfully constructed. As for the writing, it's an equally precise record of modern despair. The dialogue aches with realness.

So why the missing star? Honestly, in terms of craft (of both writing and illustration) this book deservers 5/5. The reason why I just can't stick out this book and say "This is it! Read it or die!" is because there's something fundamentally missing...more

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Jan 28, 2012 Joe rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: graphic-novels

My favorite author, John D MacDonald, once summed up the point of writing or storytelling in general like this: At some point, the reader ought to be eagerly picking up and resuming the book thinking, "Dammit, I want to see what happens to the guy!"
As a mystery/thriller writer, MacDonald was probably thinking of stories with a highly dramatic scope entailing death and danger.
Summer Blonde is NOT that book.
The shorts in Summer Blonde deal with the ordinary and mundane. There are no thrilling clim...more

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Sep 02, 2010 Maggie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: freindship-story

I'm not totally sure this is a youth appropriate text, but wanna get the hang of this, and I read it last night.

Adrian Tomine's graphic novel, a collection of four short stories, is for a high school reader, if not a late high school reader. Tomine explores the isolation and loneliness of four modern young characters. "Alter Ego" tells the story of a young author floundering to try and find his next project, checking out of his own life and only being able to connect with the high school aged yo...more

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Jul 07, 2008 Jen rated it 5 of 5 stars

Shelves: comics, short-stories

Wow. I had been enjoying the Optic Nerve single issues I was reading, but this book totally blew me away. I read Tomine's 32 Stories not too long ago (his collection of really early, self-published Optic Nerve issues), and the distance he traveled between that book and this one is remarkable to me. Summer Blonde is four different stories - each one of which was published in an issue of Optic Nerve, I believe, before they were collected - and the title of one of the stories is Summer Blonde. My f...more

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Apr 11, 2008 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

These stories of young men and women seeking meaning (and seldom finding it) in a world that is as aimless and sometimes as cruel as they themselves are, may at first seem somewhat drifty and static, but they have a way of creeping in under the skin and setting up residence in the heart. A maladjusted former telephone girl – fired for acknowledging that it was William Shatner ordering those crewnecks – strikes up a relationship with a victim of a crank call. A socially inept author parlays his n...more

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