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Killing and Dying
出版社： Bloomsbury USA
書林書號：
20233907
作者：
Tomine, Adrian
定價：
700
會員價：
$665
ISBN：
9781770463097
出版年份：
2018
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
  • 作者
Tomine的作品有著非常獨特的氣質。近年他嘗試了很多不同的繪畫風格和構圖分鏡方式，可以說驚喜不斷。Tomine的作品中，文字占得比重非常大，但他的用詞並不華麗，沒有什麼生僻詞，高度生活化卻又可說是字字璣珠。這種語言上的平實加上冷靜的畫風，營造出一種非常含蓄的敘述氛圍。但也正是這些平實的語言和冷靜的畫面，在向讀者一點一點地揭示著故事中的隱情、人物的態度與心理、還有當時當地主人公的情感波瀾。
《Killing and Dying》是Tomine出版的合集，裡面收錄了六個短篇，之前都在《Optic Nerve》上出過。六個故事的都以各自比較固定的分鏡方式繪製，但畫風、色彩上差別很大。


"[Adrian Tomine] has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.” ―Zadie Smith

After enjoying over six months on the New York Times Bestseller list and receiving a rave review from the same institution, acclaimed cartoonist Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying is now available in paperback, with an updated cover and French flaps. With this work, Tomine (Shortcomings, Scenes from an Impending Marriage) reaffirms his place not only as one of the most significant creators of contemporary comics, but as one of the great voices of modern American literature. His gift for capturing emotion and intellect resonates: the weight of love and its absence, the pride and disappointment of family, the anxiety and hopefulness of being alive in the twenty-first century.

“Amber Sweet” shows the disastrous impact of mistaken identity in a hyper-connected world; “A Brief History of the Art Form Known as Hortisculpture” details the invention and destruction of a vital new art form; “Translated, from the Japanese,” is a lush, full-color display of storytelling through still images; the title story, "Killing and Dying," centers on parenthood, mortality, and stand-up comedy. In six interconnected, darkly funny stories, Tomine forms a quietly moving portrait of contemporary life.

Adrian Tomine is a master of the small gesture, equally deft at signaling emotion via a subtle change of expression or writ large across landscapes illustrated in full color. Killing and Dying is a fraught, realist masterpiece.
Adrian Tomine was born in 1974 in Sacramento, California. He began self-publishing his comic book series Optic Nerve. His comics have been anthologized in publications such as McSweeney’s, Best American Comics, and Best American Nonrequired Reading, and his graphic novel Shortcomings was a New York Times Notable Book of the year. Since 1999, Tomine has been a regular contributor to the New Yorker. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife and daughters.

日裔美國漫畫家Adrian Tomine從十六歲開始自出版個人短篇漫畫合集《Optic Nerve》，至今不輟。他沉靜的畫面和冷靜的敘事風格不僅在獨立漫畫圈內獨樹一幟，也獲得了主流文化界的肯定，曾多次為《紐約客》雜誌繪製封面。

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