Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular Gen X cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series "Optic Nerve" and his periodical illustrations in "The New Yorker". Despite heavy youth-culture exposure, (he is often referenced in mainstream publications such as "Entertainment Weekly" and teen TV dramas) Tomine remains a largely underground figure, placed demographically between "RAW" artists such as Art Spiegelman and Harvey Pekar, … Wikipedia
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Adrian Tomine was born in Sacramento, California. At the age of twelve, he discovered the comic 'Love and Rockets' by the Hernandez Brothers and was heavily influenced by their work. In 1991, while still in high school, Tomine started writing and drawin lambiek.net/artists/t/tomine_a.htm