Shortcomings
by Adrian Tomine
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Author: Adrian TomineEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-02
ISBN: 1897299168
Number of pages: 104
Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
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Book Review: "A day in the life" -- of a rather annoying guy
Summary: 5 Stars
Not many graphic novels become New York Times Notable Books of the Year, but Tomine is a better artist and a much, much better writer than most of his competition. The setting here is Berkeley and the main cast includes Ben, the Japanese-American manager of a movie theater; Miko, his grad student girlfriend who's getting tired of Ben's passive-aggressive fits; and Alice, Ben's aggressively gay Korean buddy for a decade. Miko has a chance to go to New York for a few months and jumps at it, which Ben (of course) sees as an attack on him. Alice puts up with his deep personality flaws as she works her way through the student body at Mills College. But let's face it: With Ben, everything is always about him, and he's a dork besides, with only embryonic social skills and no grasp at all of the racial or ethnic undercurrents among his peers. The story is the best kind of slice-of-life. In fact, it's so well written, it doesn't really need the art; it could have been equally successful as a "regular" novel. Happily, the artwork is also first-rate.
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