Leanne Shapton is a Canadian artist and graphic novelist, now living in New York. Her second work, Important Artifacts and Personal Property From the Collection of Lenore Doolan and Harold Morris, Including Books, Street Fashion and Jewelry, has been optioned for a film slated to star Brad Pitt and Natalie Portman.^[1] The novel, which takes the form of an auction catalog, uses photographs and accompanying captions to chronicle the romance and subsequent breakup of a couple via the relationship's significant possessions or "artifacts".

Shapton's first work, Was She Pretty?, was a nominee for the Doug Wright Award, a Canadian award for comics and graphic novels, in 2007. It explored, via a series of line-drawn illustrations, the issues of relationship jealousy and feminine insecurity as told through the imagined superior traits of the subjects' boyfriends' exes.

Shapton is also an art director for newspapers and magazines.^[2] Formerly associated with Saturday Night, Maclean's and the National Post in Canada, she has worked as art director for the op-ed page at The New York Times.^[1] She has created hand lettering for a number of book covers, including Chuck Palahniuk's 2003 novel Diary. She is also a partner in J&L Books.

References[link]

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Adrian Tomine
Tomine at the 2011 Brooklyn Book Festival
Born	(1974-05-31) May 31, 1974 (age 38) Sacramento, CA, USA
Nationality	American
Area(s)	Writer, Artist
Notable works	Optic Nerve

External images
	Adrian Tomine (author picture)[1]
	Excerpt from Shortcomings[2]

Adrian Tomine (born May 31, 1974), a popular contemporary cartoonist, is best known for his ongoing comic book series Optic Nerve and his periodical illustrations in The New Yorker.

Biography[link]

Adrian Tomine was born May 31, 1974 in Sacramento, California. His parents divorced when he was two years old. His father is Dr. Chris Tomine, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus Environmental Engineering at California State University Sacramento's Department of Civil Engineering. His mother is Dr. Satsuki Ina, Ph.D. and Professor Emeritus at California State University Sacramento's School of Education. Tomine is fourth-generation Japanese American, and both of his parents spent part of their childhoods in Japanese internment camps in the U.S. during World War II.^[3] He also has a brother, Dylan, who is eight years his senior.

After his parents divorced, Tomine moved frequently, accompanying his mother to Fresno, Oregon, Germany, and Belgium, while spending summers with his father in Sacramento. He attended high school at Rio Americano in Sacramento, where he started writing, drawing and self-publishing his comic Optic Nerve. Tomine has continued producing Optic Nerve as a regular comic book series for Drawn & Quarterly; the most recent issue was published in September 2011.

Tomine graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in English Literature. He currently resides in Brooklyn, New York with his wife Sarah Brennan, a longtime New Yorker. On October 31, 2009, Tomine and Brennan welcomed their first child, Nora Emiko Tomine.

As a young child, Tomine enjoyed Spider-Man and Indiana Jones comics. In an interview, Tomine said that "something about the medium just transfixed me at an early age"^[4] and that his influences include Jaime Hernandez and Daniel Clowes. He is also a fan of contemporary Chris Ware. In addition to writing graphic novels such as Summer Blonde and Shortcomings, Tomine regularly works in commercial illustration. He has done several covers and illustrations for The New Yorker; his first was "Missed Connection".

Background[link]

Tomine began publishing his work when he was still a teenager; he was mainly self-published, but was also published in mainstream publications like Pulse while still in high school. While his early work was greeted with much acclaim, he faced severe backlash around the time when he made the jump to professional publication, and the letters pages of his modern comics typically feature several highly critical letters where he is accused of creating "trendy" or "emo" characters. He is often compared to his friend Dan Clowes for his signature clean-line style; in fact, he is sometimes accused of ripping off Clowes' style. In an interview published in The Comics Journal #205, Tomine addressed many of these criticisms and discussed his influences in detail, admitting that he was strongly influenced by Clowes but perhaps even more so by Jaime Hernandez. The cover of his Journal issue featured a self-parody of sorts, featuring a sequence where a hipster girl says to the reader, "I'm so cute! I listen to indie rock! But... I'm sad. Can you relate?"

In an interview published on the Drawn and Quarterly website, Tomine discussed printing critical letters in his book: "I imagine most cartoonists receive some negative mail. I just thought it was fair (and entertaining) to allow a range of reactions to be heard. And as for my response, it really varies: some criticism I dismiss completely, and some I take to heart."

Most of Tomine's early works rarely mentioned racial issues and most of his characters appeared to be Caucasian. Tomine, who is Asian American, drew himself in many of his early strips, but did not make his ethnicity clear (he often drew his glasses as being opaque, so his eyes couldn't be seen). In later works, he has explored racial issues more directly, such as in his latest graphic novel Shortcomings.

In the '90s, Tomine made an appearance on The Jane Pratt Show, which he documented in Optic Nerve.

Mini-Comics[link]

Optic Nerve was originally self-published in mini-comic format by Tomine himself, and distributed to local comics shops in his area. Most of the stories were later compiled into a single edition, titled "32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics," published by Drawn and Quarterly.

Serialized Comics[link]

Optic Nerve[link]

Optic Nerve is the ongoing series of comics by Adrian Tomine that were originally self-published and are currently published by Drawn and Quarterly. Originally, the self-published comics were in "mini-comic" format, consisting of seven issues (most of them later republished in 32 Stories). After Drawn and Quarterly became the publisher, the comics were published at standard size, and the issue numbering was restarted, making the first Drawn & Quarterly published issue to be numbered #1. These comics range from a few pages per story to the 32-page standard in later issues. Issues 1-4 included several stories each and were collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories, and issues 5-8 included one story each and were collected in Summer Blonde. Issues 9-11 were compiled into a graphic novel titled Shortcomings, released in September 2007.

Optic Nerve #1[link]

Issue one contains five stories entitled "Sleepwalk," "Echo Ave.," "Long Distance," "Drop" and "Lunch Break." Published by Drawn and Quarterly in April 1995.

Optic Nerve #2[link]

Issue two contains four stories entitled "The Connecting Thread," "Summer Job," "Pink Frosting" and "Layover." Published by Drawn and Quarterly in November 1995

"The Connecting Thread" is a story of a young woman convinced that she is being watched from afar by a mysterious admirer who repeatedly places advertisements about her in the "I Saw You" section of her local newspaper.

"Summer Job" tells the experiences of an adolescent named Eric who is employed at a photocopying store for a summer.

"Pink Frosting" depicts a violent confrontation that takes place after a car accident almost occurs, culminating in a curb-stomp.^[5]

"Layover" shows a young man who misses his flight and instead of returning home to people who assume he has caught his flight wanders aimlessly for the whole day.

Optic Nerve #3[link]

Issue three contains four stories entitled "Dylan & Donovan," "Supermarket," "Hostage Situation" and "Unfaded." Published by Drawn and Quarterly in August 1996.

Optic Nerve #4[link]

Issue four contains three stories entitled "Six Day Cold," "Fourth of July" and "Hazel Eyes." Published by Drawn and Quarterly in April 1997.

Optic Nerve #5-8[link]

Summer Blonde is one of Adrian Tomine's most commercially popular collections of comics from his Optic Nerve series. These four stories were originally published individually.

Summer Blonde begins with "Alter Ago", originally published in Optic Nerve #5, which chronicles a promising young author struggling to write a sophomore novel. In the wake of his writer's block, he becomes obsessed with re-connecting with his high school crush, despite currently being in a relationship. His feelings are further complicated when he begins spending time with his crush's teenage sister.

"Hawaiian Getaway", originally published in Optic Nerve #6, is the story of Hilary Chan's evolving circumstances when she finds herself unemployed and with no meaningful social relationships. In order to compensate for these voids, she becomes more eccentric and isolated. The format of the story is unlike the others included in Summer Blonde, as it divided into 13 chapters that separate defining moments in Hilary's life. This format also succeeds in illustrating the protagonist's disconnection from society.

"Summer Blonde", the title story, was first seen in Optic Nerve #7, and is centered on a beautiful young woman named Vanessa who finds herself the object of three men's desires: her boyfriend, a misogynistic lover named Carlo, and Carlo's obsessive and unstable neighbor, Neil.

"Bomb Scare", originally published in Optic Nerve #8, tells the story of two outcast teenagers and the scrutiny that they must endure at the hand of their high school's social hierarchy. "Bomb Scare" was chosen by Dave Eggers to be included in the book "The Best American Non-Required Reading 2002" (Houghton Mifflin).

Optic Nerve #9-11[link]

Issues nine through eleven contain Optic Nerve's first multiple issue story arc. Issue 9 was published by Drawn and Quarterly in January 2004; Issue 10 in October 2005; Issue 11 in March 2007.

The story was compiled as into a single hardcover edition, titled Shortcomings, by Drawn and Quarterly in September 2007. A second hardcover edition was published in December 2007, and paperback in April 2009.

Optic Nerve #12[link]

Issue twelve contains two stories. The first, entitled "A Brief History of the Art Form Known as "Hortisculpture"", is composed of several vignettes. The second story is titled "Amber Sweet." Optic Nerve number twelve is the first issue to include interior color. Published by Drawn and Quarterly in September 2011.

Collected works[link]

• 1998 - 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics (ISBN 1-896597-00-9)
• 1998 - Sleepwalk and Other Stories (ISBN 1-896597-12-2)
• 2002 - Summer Blonde (ISBN 1-896597-57-2)
• 2004 - Scrapbook: Uncollected Work 1990-2004 (ISBN 1-896597-77-7)
• 2005 - New York Sketches 2004 (ISBN 0-9766848-2-9)
• 2007 - Shortcomings (ISBN 978-1-897299-16-6)
• 2011 - Scenes From an Impending Marriage (ISBN 978-1770460348)

Other work[link]

Tomine has worked on several albums, including liner notes and album art for Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, "Last Stop: This Town", "Cancer for the Cure", and End Times, as well as The Softies' album "It's Love" and The Crabs's "What Were Flames Now Smolder".

Footnotes[link]

1. ^ "The Shortcomings of Adrian Tomine", Chandler Levack, theVarsity.ca Oct 29, 2007
2. ^ "Asian Confusion" (Review of Shortcomings), by Jim Windolf, The New York Times, November 11, 2007
3. ^ Melissa Hung (Oct 16, 2002). "Geek Chic". East Bay Express. http://www.eastbayexpress.com/news/geek_chic/Content?oid=284211. Retrieved 2006-09-17. 
4. ^ http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2009/march/qa-adrian-tomine
5. ^ Touching the Fictional Nerve: Adrian Tomine's "Sleepwalk and Other Stories"

External links[link]

• Adrian Tomine's official website
• Tomine page at Drawn & Quarterly
• Tomine page at lambiek.net
• Nichi Bei Times interview
• Scene Missing Magazine interviews Adrian Tomine
• Hand-written interview with Adrian Tomine from ifpthendirt.
• Comics Reporter: Tom Spurgeon: A short interview with Adrian Tomine
• Adrian Tomine interview (December 2004) for QRD
• Review of Shortcomings @ The Culturatti]
• Tomine interview (Jan 2008) Fresh Air, NPR
• 2011 radio interview (50 minutes) at The Bat Segundo Show
• Ahora: Interview with Adrian Tomine on The New Yorker [1]

The North Carolina Award is the highest civilian award bestowed by the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is awarded in the four fields of science, literature, the fine arts, and public service. Sometimes referred to as the "Nobel Prize of North Carolina",^{[citation needed]} the award has been given to up to nine individuals each year since 1964. The awards, provided for by chapters 140A and 143B of the North Carolina General Statutes, are chosen by the North Carolina Awards Committee appointed by the Governor of North Carolina and supervised by the North Carolina Secretary of Cultural Resources.

The award itself was designed by sculptor Paul Manship and was one of the last commissions he completed before his death.

Award winners[link]

1960s[link]

• 1964:
  • Literature: Inglis Fletcher
  • Science: John Couch
  • Fine Arts: Francis Speight
  • Public Service: John Morehead, Clarence Poe
• 1965:
  • Literature: Paul Green, Gerald Johnson
  • Science: Frederick Wolf
  • Fine Arts: Hunter Johnson
  • Public Service: Frank Porter Graham
• 1966:
  • Literature: Bernice Kelly Harris
  • Science: Oscar Rice
  • Fine Arts: A.G. Odell, Jr.,
  • Public Service: Luther Hodges
• 1967:
  • Literature: Jonathan Worth Daniels
  • Science: Carl Gottschalk, Hiram Houston Merritt
  • Fine Arts: Benjamin F. Swalin
  • Public Service: Albert Coates
• 1968:
  • Literature: Vermont C. Royster, Charles Russell
  • Science: Stanley Stephens
  • Fine Arts: Hobson Pittman
  • Public Service: Robert Lee Humber
• 1969:
  • Literature: Ovid Pierce,
  • Science: Kenneth Brinkhous
  • Fine Arts: Charles Stanford, Jr.
  • Public Service: May G. L. Kellenberger

1970s[link]

• 1970:
  • Literature: Frances Gray Patton
  • Science: Philip Handler
  • Fine Arts: Henry C. Pearson
  • Public Service: Terry Sanford
• 1971:
  • Literature: Guy Owen Novelist
  • Science: no award
  • Fine Arts: James Semans & Mary Semans
  • Public Service: Capus Waynick, James E. Webb
• 1972:
  • Literature: John Ehle
  • Science: Edward David, Jr., Harold Hotelling
  • Fine Arts: Sidney Blackmer
  • Public Service: William Herring
• 1973:
  • Literature: Helen Smith Bevington, Burke Davis
  • Science: Ellis Cowling
  • Fine Arts: Kenneth Ness
  • Public Service: Samuel J. Ervin
• 1974:
  • Literature: Thad Stem, Jr.
  • Science: James Wyngaarden
  • Fine Arts: William Fields
  • Public Service: Ellen Black Winston
• 1975:
  • Literature: Doris Betts
  • Science: John Etchells
  • Fine Arts: Robet Ward
  • Public Service: William Friday
• 1976:
  • Literature: Richard Walser
  • Science: C. Clark Cockerham
  • Fine Arts: Romare Bearden, Foster Fitz-Simons
  • Public Service: Juanita Kreps
• 1977:
  • Literature: Reynolds Price
  • Science: Reginald Mitchiner
  • Fine Arts: Joseph Sloane, Jonathan Williams
  • Public Service: Elizabeth Duncan Koontz
• 1978:
  • Literature: Manly Wade Wellman
  • Science: David Sabiston, Jr.
  • Fine Arts: Henry Kamphoefner
  • Public Service: Robert Garvey, Jr., Harriet Tynes
• 1979:
  • Literature: Harry Golden
  • Science: Walter Gordy
  • Fine Arts: Sam Ragan
  • Public Service: Archie Davis, John deButts

1980s[link]

• 1980:
  • Literature: Fred Chappell
  • Science: George Hitchings
  • Fine Arts: Robert Lindgren
  • Public Service: Dan Moore, Jeanelle Moore
• 1981:
  • Literature: Glen Rounds, Tom Wicker
  • Science: Vivian Stannett
  • Fine Arts: Adeline McCall
  • Public Service: Ralph Scott
• 1982:
  • Literature: Willie Snow Ethridge
  • Science: Floyd Denny, Jr.
  • Fine Arts: Selma Burke, R. Philip Hanes, Jr.
  • Public Service: Nancy Chase
• 1983:
  • Literature: Heather Miller
  • Science: Frank Guthrie
  • Fine Arts: Mary Dalton & Harry Dalton
  • Public Service: Hugh Morton
• 1984:
  • Literature: Joseph Mitchell, Lee Smith
  • Science: Robert Hill
  • Fine Arts: Maud Gatewood, Andy Griffith
  • Public Service: George Watts Hill
• 1985:
  • Literature: Wilma Dykeman
  • Science: Irwin Fridovich
  • Fine Arts: Claude Howell
  • Public Service: J. Gordon Hanes, Jr.
• 1986:
  • Literature: A.R. Ammons
  • Science: Ernest Eliel
  • Fine Arts: Doc Watson
  • Public Service: Joseph M. Bryan, Billy Graham
• 1987:
  • Literature: Maya Angelou
  • Science: Robert Lefkowitz
  • Fine Arts: Harvey Littleton
  • Public Service: John T. Caldwell, Charles Kuralt
• 1988:
  • Literature: Charles Eaton
  • Science: Pedro Cuatrecasas
  • Fine Arts: Edith London
  • Public Service: David Brinkley, William Lee
• 1989:
  • Literature: Ronald Bayes
  • Science: Gertrude Elion
  • Fine Arts: Loonis McGlohon
  • Public Service: Roy Park, Maxine Swalin

1990s[link]

• 1990:
  • Literature: Leon Rooke
  • Science: H. Keith Brodie
  • Fine Arts: Bob Timberlake
  • Public Service: Dean Colvard, Frank Kenan
• 1991:
  • Literature: Robert Morgan
  • Science: Mary Ellen Jones
  • Fine Arts: William Brown
  • Public Service: Elizabeth Dole, Jesse Meredith
• 1992:
  • Literature: Louis Rubin, Jr.
  • Science: John Madey
  • Fine Arts: Chuck Davis
  • Public Service: William Cochrane, Maxwell Thurman
• 1993:
  • Literature: John Hope Franklin
  • Science: Oliver Smithies
  • Fine Arts: Joe Cox, Billy Taylor
  • Public Service: Eric Schopler
• 1994:
  • Literature: Elizabeth Spencer
  • Science: Marshall Edgell
  • Fine Arts: Sarah Blakeslee
  • Public Service: Richard Jenrette, Freda Nicholson
• 1995:
  • Literature: James Applewhite
  • Science: Clyde Hutchison, III, John Mayo
  • Fine Arts: John Biggers, Kenneth Noland
  • Public Service: Banks Talley, Jr.
• 1996:
  • Literature: Betty Adcock
  • Science: Joseph Pagano
  • Fine Arts: Joanne Bath
  • Public Service: Martha McKay, John L. Sanders, Robert Scott
• 1997:
  • Literature: Clyde Edgerton
  • Science: Robert Bruck
  • Fine Arts: M. Mellanay Delhom
  • Public Service: Thomas Kenan, III, Elna Spaulding
• 1998:
  • Literature: Kaye Gibbons
  • Science: Martin Rodbell
  • Fine Arts: Robert Gray, Marvin Saltzman, James Taylor
  • Public Service: Emily Harris Preyer, L. Richardson Preyer
• 1999:
  • Literature: Allan Gurganus, Jill McCorkle
  • Science: Robert Parr, Knut Schmidt-Nielsen
  • Fine Arts: Frank Horton, Herb Jackson
  • Public Service: Julia Jones Daniels, Frank Daniels, Jr., Henry Shelton

2000s[link]

• 2000:
  • Literature: William S. Powell
  • Science: William Fletcher
  • Fine Arts: S. Tucker Cooke
  • Public Service: Henry Bowers, Harlan E. Boyles, James Goodmon
• 2001:
  • Literature: Kathryn Stripling Byer, Shelby Stephenson
  • Science: Royce Murray
  • Fine Arts: Arthur Smith
  • Public Service: W.W. Finlator, Robert Jordan, III
• 2002:
  • Literature: Romulus Linney
  • Science: William Anlyan
  • Fine Arts: Cynthia Bringle, Martha Nell Hardy
  • Public Service: Julius L. Chambers, H.G. Jones, Edwin Wilson
• 2003:
  • Literature: Jaki Shelton Green
  • Science: William E. Thornton
  • Fine Arts: Etta Baker, Mary Ann Scherr
  • Public Service: Frank Borden Hanes, James B. Hunt, Jr.
• 2004:
  • Literature: Walter J. Harrelson, Penelope Niven
  • Science: Annie Louise Wilkerson
  • Fine Arts: William Ivey Long, Elizabeth Matheson
  • Public Service: Voit Gilmore, LeRoy T. Walker
• 2005:
  • Literature: Randall Kenan
  • Science: Mansukh Wani
  • Fine Arts: Bland Simpson
  • Public Service: Joseph M. Bryan, Jr., Betty Debnam Hunt, Thomas Willis Lambeth
• 2006:
  • Literature: Emily Herring Wilson, Michael F. Parker
  • Science: Charles A. Sanders
  • Fine Arts: William T. Williams
  • Public Service: Roy Parker, Jr., James E. Holshouser, Jr., Thomas K. Hearn, Jr.
• 2007:
  • Literature: William Leuchtenburg
  • Science: Viney Aneja, Darrel Stafford
  • Fine Arts: Jan Davidson, Rosemary Harris
  • Public Service: Jerry C. Cashion, Henry Frye, Burley Mitchell, Charlie Rose
• 2008:
  • Literature: Charles Frazier, Margaret Maron
  • Science: Maurice Brookhart
  • Fine Arts: Gerald Freedman, Alexander M. Rivera Jr.
  • Public Service: Ann Goodnight, James G. Martin, Dean Smith, Fred and Alice Stanback
• 2009:
  • Literature: Gerald Barrax
  • Science: Joseph M. DeSimone
  • Fine Arts: Mark Peiser, Bo Thorp
  • Public Service: Betty Ray McCain, Hugh L. McColl, Jr.

2010s[link]

• 2010
  • Literature: Carole Boston Weatherford
  • Science: F. Ivy Carroll
  • Fine Arts: Robert W. Ebendorf, Donald Sultan
  • Public Service: R. Michael Leonard, Margaret S. "Tog" Newman

External links[link]

• NC Awards page at the NC Dept of Cultural Resources
• NC Awards Collection at the State Library of North Carolina

Frank Anthony Bruni (born October 31, 1964) is an American journalist. He was the chief restaurant critic of The New York Times, a position he held from 2004 to 2009. In May 2011, he became the first openly gay Op-Ed columnist of The New York Times.

Biography[link]

He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1986 with a B.A. in English. He was a Morehead Scholar and on the staff of the student paper, The Daily Tar Heel.^[1] Bruni graduated second in his class with an M.S. degree in journalism from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. At Columbia he also won a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship.