Welcome to Litsy!

I found this treasure in my pile of unread books. I bought the box two years ago in a comic shop in NYC and almost forgot about it ... 🙈

Attention my fellow New Yorkers! - the unparallelledly awesome Brooklyn comic book store Desert Island is organizing an indie comics festival coming up Saturday, November 5th! I'll be there! Adrian Tomine and Charles Burns and a hundred-plus other artists and exhibitors will be there!! Will you? (Details at comicartsbrooklyn.com ⭐️)

#day2 of #somethingforsept: books with #numbersintitle. Glaring omission: Among the Ten Thousand Things by Julia Pierpont, whom I did tons of theater with in high school. #septphotochallenge #septemberphotochallenge

A must for fans of comics/graphic novels! Lots of the material itself is fantastic especially when you consider how early it is but what makes the collection extraordinary is you get to see so much development in both art and text and general storytelling. The stories themselves tend to take the ordinary and then elevate it and some have some pretty absurd twists. The collection also replicates the original mini comics which is surprisingly fun

Some of these stories were laugh out loud funny. Others have the kick in the gut quality Tomine is known for. Of particular standout are "Smoke" and "Happy Anniversary." That said, the collection is a mixed bag, a solid ⭐️⭐️⭐️.

Like the kids today say, "it me." ??

As an Adrian Tomine fan, it was fascinating to watch his work grow and develop over the course of these minicomics. Great for fans of his, or as an introduction to his work.