Last week, the Houston Chronicle reviewed Drawn & Quarterly’s new edition of 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics and Shortcomings, both by the excellent Adrian Tomine. It’s not a bad little piece, especially from the Chronicle, whose motto is “Yeah, we suck, but we’re the only paper in town, so eat it, Houston”. The introductory sentence is the best part:
Hand Adrian Tomine a business card and a pen, and he can sketch out a fully realized narrative on the back.
I’m afraid I have to call shenanigans on that one. Therefore, I will give an entire long box full of Valiant, Malibu, and CrossGen comics to anyone that can produce a business card with a fully-realized, original comic story by Adrian Tomine. No cheating, either; I know what Freytag’s Pyramid looks like. I want the whole works: exposition; rising action; climax; falling action; and a denouement.
June 7th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
I love Tomine, but yeah, maybe he can only get up to the climax on a business card. It would take two cards to produce a fully realized Tomine story.
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