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Shortcomings (Hardcover) by Adrian Tomine - Remainder
SKU: rem000770
$9.98
FROM THE PREEMINENT CARTOONIST OF HIS GENERATION, THE MOST ANTICIPATED GRAPHIC NOVEL OF 2007
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine’s first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.
Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine’s iconic comic book series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #13. Now Only $9.98
Shortcomings, Adrian Tomine’s first long-form graphic novel, is the story of Ben Tanaka, a confused, obsessive Japanese American male in his late twenties, and his cross-country search for contentment (or at least the perfect girl). Along the way, Tomine tackles modern culture, sexual mores, and racial politics with brutal honesty and lacerating, irreverent humor, while deftly bringing to life a cast of painfully real antihero characters. A frequent contributor to The New Yorker, Tomine has acquired a cultlike fan following and has earned status as one of the most widely acclaimed cartoonists of our time.
Shortcomings was serialized in Tomine’s iconic comic book series Optic Nerve and was excerpted in McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern #13. Now Only $9.98
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We are the masters of
We are the masters of technology and we have created for us a world full of extravagance, lavishness, lushness and offensively flattering. Technology is one of the most important things, that does a remarkable effect on us in almost every aspect of our lives. Technology has constantly seeped its way into our daily routines. Everything we do is somehow connected with technology, whether it is working on a paper in the computer lab, watching TV or listening to music on a computer, from weapons to transport to communications to medicine to education and all the way to the moon and back to the smallest thing as a nail cutter, a household appliance, without technology, life would be jagged and exasperating and without it we might still be living like the primeval man. Today the use of technology is tremendous. Almost every home has a computer and a way of communication like the telephone. Every home has stoves and microwaves. Most have cable television. Well to some people technology is the only way for them to depend on for survival. I have learned that technology plays a huge role in every person’s life. For better or worse for the good or bad technology has always been there for us. And it’s true that technology has helped us in lots of ways. The use of technology today has made people think harder to encourage them to create other technology that will benefit us in the future for survival, employment, education, health, etc. Technology could be the best thing that ever happened to us.
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Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine
Shortcomings by Adrian Tomine certainly looks an interesting essay because it the author’s first attempt at a long-form graphic novel, which is worth checking out! I am sure that a lot of hard work and effort must have gone into this book as it is a completely new form of writing for him so in that sense itself it makes me curious to buy and read it – at least I’ll have his first attempt at writing a graphic novel!!