![]() ![]() The scene reaches its dramatic climax when Tomine turns to an older woman offering unsolicited advice and shouts, “I’ll spank your ass!!” After pages of crowded panels, this scene closes with notable slowness. The crowds around them watch with raised eyes creeping into the edges of the frames and lurking in the background, emphasizing the public setting. Illustrated over several panels, he and his wife shift quickly from offering to buy her food to attempting to restrain her in the stroller. In Penn Station with his wife and daughter, Tomine’s daughter begins to cry out for chips. Stories of unwanted public interventions into private life - once so ubiquitous among New Yorkers navigating the subway and crowded streets - also abound. After a reading at a literary event, he returns to his seat and thinks to himself, “”. ![]() Most of Tomine’s stories betray similarly relatable insecurities. From The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, by Adrian Tomine (Drawn & Quarterly, 2020) ![]()
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