THE PANELIST Some Nerve
eye - . - 09.09.04Adrian Tomine in one word? Clean. His unofficial uniform is pressed khakis and an oxford shirt, hair fastidiously parted, black-framed glasses polished to a glow. Clean, too, is his top-selling comic series, Optic Nerve. Not that he doesn't curse; his comic is full of four-letter invectives and frank sex-talk....
...The new issue of Optic Nerve finds him beginning a three-part story about a young Japanese man and his possible fixation on WASP women. It's the first time Tomine has explicitly addressed his Asian heritage in his comics...
See a collection of his work in a gallery sale here.
