The indignities continue through Adrian’s early days as a not-so-famous cartoonist as he tries to get established in the comic book industry. On being a famous cartoonist, Daniel Clowes once said, “It’s like being a famous badminton player”. A teacher has to ask another boy to sit with him at lunch.
The whole class breaks out in laughter and the boys in the class taunt and ridicule and shove and depants him during recess. It’s weird.” – Adrian Tomineįor Adrian Tomine, the humiliations start in grade school when he announces to the class that when he grows up he wants to be a famous cartoonist. “ But still…My clearest memories related to comics – about being a cartoonist – are the embarrassing gaffes, the small humiliations, the perceived insults…Almost everything else is either hazy or forgotten. ‘The Loneliness of the Long Distance Cartoonist’, a graphic novel, by Adrian Tomine (2020) – 162 pages
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