![]() He hit upon his proud-to-be-mundane style toward the end of the decade. Tomine has been writing and drawing his “Optic Nerve” comic books since 1991, when he was a high school student in Sacramento. The dialogue appearing inside his cartoon balloons is pitch-perfect and succinct. ![]() He is a mild observer, an invisible reporter, a scientist of the heart. Unlike the more playful graphic novelists who influenced him, Daniel Clowes (“Ghost World,” “David Boring”) and the Hernandez brothers (“Love and Rockets”), Tomine isn’t given to flights of surrealism, rude jests or grotesque images. Tomine has always been attracted to love gone wrong among the hesitant young men and women of the bourgeois-bohemian set, but he gets his subject across in the unsentimental style of an anthropologist’s report. ![]()
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