{"id":2294,"date":"2009-05-05T23:50:56","date_gmt":"2009-05-06T03:50:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bookdragon.si.edu\/?p=2294"},"modified":"2014-05-20T00:25:06","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T04:25:06","slug":"32-stories-the-complete-optic-nerve-mini-comics-by-adrian-tomine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/32-stories-the-complete-optic-nerve-mini-comics-by-adrian-tomine\/","title":{"rendered":"32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics by Adrian Tomine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/05\/32-Stories.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29713\" src=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2009\/05\/32-stories.jpg\" alt=\"32 Stories\" width=\"128\" height=\"191\" \/><\/a>You&#8217;ve gotta love this boxed set of eight little mini-comic books. As a not-so-cool high school student (the first picture you see once you slide out the contents) who didn&#8217;t have much of a social life, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adrian-tomine.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Adrian Tomine<\/a> had quite the cool other-life, inking comics about what he would have liked to be doing, his friends&#8217; experiences, some made up stories, a few really random dreams, and perfectly captured little moments about the world around him.<\/p>\n<p>From 1991 to 1993, he self-published these mini-comics, literally cutting and pasting them into short little books, then taking them down to the local Kinko&#8217;s to make copies he hoped to sell. He found readers here and there, and eventually, he even graduated to offset printing. He had his dream come true a couple years later, and got picked up by a much-admired real-life publishing house, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drawnandquarterly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Drawn &amp; Quarterly<\/a> \u2013 whose publisher, Chris Oliveros, ruefully questions how his first letter he ever wrote to Tomine was &#8220;on the back of a J.D. King &#8216;Beastniks&#8217; strip.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All that&#8217;s in here: all seven of the original mini-comics faithfully reproduced (with stickers even in issue #4!), Tomine&#8217;s 1995 introduction when they were first published together as a real book, his updated 2008 re-introduction, and publisher Chris Oliveros&#8217; own remembrance of things past to match Tomine&#8217;s. The result is an absolute delight, not to mention quite a heady record of the development of a very talented artist as a very young man. Makes for great gift-giving, too, with its nifty cardboard box, too!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readers<\/strong>: Young Adult, Adult<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published<\/strong>: 1991-1993 (self-published mini-comics), 1995 (first published anthology), 2009 (boxed reprint)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve gotta love this boxed set of eight little mini-comic books. 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