A review by blevins
New York Drawings by Adrian Tomine

5.0

I've followed Adrian Tomine mostly through his work for the New Yorker and this book collects a lot of that work and some odds and ends to form a great starting point for his drawings, sketches, illustrations & comic pieces. I'm a fan. Tomine really captures the little moments of city life as his subjects wander through the lonely city with whatever distracts them from the world around them. Looking at the work in a couple of short settings, you can gauge the themes of his work and one of which is just how much Tomine uses books or the idea of books and reading in his work. Books appear a lot, which only makes me more of a fan. I need to read his longer graphic novels that the library has...in fact, I'm going to spend some lunch hours doing just that in the upcoming weeks!