Adrian Tomine has forged countless iconic images of New York City in his career as an illustrator. A master of conveying an entire story with a single panel, his covers for the New Yorker are beloved by New Yorkers and non-New Yorkers alike, as much for their frank yet charming portrayal of life in the big city as for their flawless design and gorgeous linework. 

With a deft and romantic touch, Adrian Tomine portrays the emotional ambivalence of drifting, urban twenty-somethings in stunning black and white.

Everything you wanted to know about storytelling or Adrian Tomine but were too afraid to ask That wouldve been too easy and spontaneous for me, and I had to find a way to make everything more complicated. And yet for over thirty years, bestselling author, screenwriter, and New Yorker cover artist Adrian Tomines work has set the standard for contemporary storytelling. With Tomine, his readership has grown from the dedicated following of his comic-book series Optic Nerve to include a wider but still engaged, opinionated, and ever-inquiring public.

Cartoonist ZOE THOROGOOD records six months of her own life as it falls apart in a desperate attempt to put it back together again in the only way she knows how. IT'S LONELY AT THE CENTRE OF THE EARTH is an intimate metanarrative that looks into the life of a selfish artist who must create for her own survival.

Over the past 20 years, as Peter Bagge worked on his "Buddy Bradley" stories and other graphic novels, he also cranked out dozens of shorter stories, which are now collected here. Included are one-off gags and short stories as well as a series of Bagge-written stories drawn by other cartoonists.

The annotated and expanded screenplay adaptation of the landmark graphic novel Ben and Mikos relationship is in trouble. Hes a struggling filmmaker, she works for a local film festival, and in various ways, theyre both searching for something else. When hes not managing a derelict movie theater, Ben spends his time obsessing over unavailable blonde women, watching Criterion Collection DVDs, and eating in diners with his best friend Alice, a grad student with a serial dating habit. When Miko moves to New York for an internship, Ben begins to explore what he thinks he wants, throwing himself headfirst into new relationships, unfamiliar surroundings, and uncharted emotional territory.