Adrian Tomine
Interviewed at City Beat. Excerpt:
“Some people, usually an Asian American journalist, feel that I’ve hidden my own identity,” he says, “and that I’m squandering my opportunity as a published author to use every pen stroke to make a statement about my experience.” Such critics have even “presented drawings that I did of myself where my glasses were opaque. It’s like, ‘That’s the disguise; you’re not showing your slanted eyes!’” He laughs. “But that’s a very old cartooning tradition that has been done for generations.”









