Adrian Tomine
Adrian Tomine (pronounced toe-mean-ay) was born in Sacramento, California in 1974 and his childhood was spent in various small towns along the West Coast of the USA as well as a year spent in Europe at the age of 13. He studied English at the University of California and currently resides in Berkeley, California.
He has been producing his comics since he was 17. "I became painfully aware of my detachment from any type of social interaction early into my freshman year. It was one those quite weekend nights when even my parents were out having fun that I began making serious attempts to create stories in comics form. It was a cheap way to keep myself occupied, and when a strip started really coming together, I actually forgot that most of my peers were interacting and socialising."
A particularly strong early influence was the comic Love & Rockets by Jamie and Gilbert Hernandez, which he began reading at the early age of 13 despite its adult themes and content. Eventually, he received a Xeric grant to publish the seventh issue of his mini-comic, Optic Nerve, and since those early days he has gone on to develop he own Gen X sensibility within alternative comics.
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