Adrian Tomine

In 2015, Tomine's graphic novel Killing and Dying, a collection of six short graphic stories, was released.

After Drawn and Quarterly became Tomine's publisher, Optic Nerve was published at standard comic book size, and the issue numbering was restarted, making the first Drawn & Quarterly published issue to be numbered #1. These comics range from a few pages per story to the 32-page standard in later issues. Issues #1-4 included several stories each and were collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories, and issues #5-8 included one story each and were collected in Summer Blonde. Issues #9–11 were compiled into a graphic novel titled Shortcomings, released in September 2007. In Shortcomings, Tomine explored racial issues directly.

Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his illustrations in The New Yorker.

Adrian Tomine was born May 31, 1974, in Sacramento, California. His parents divorced when he was two years old. His father is Dr. Chris Tomine, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus Environmental Engineering at California State University Sacramento's Department of Civil Engineering. His mother is Dr. Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus at California State University Sacramento's School of Education. Tomine is fourth-generation Japanese American, and both of his parents spent part of their childhoods in Japanese American internment camps in the U.S. during World War II. He also has a brother, Dylan, who is eight years his senior.