![]() As his reputation grows, the humiliations only increase. His early confidence is short-lived, as a bad review from the Comics Journal shatters Tomine’s perception of himself as the “boy wonder of mini-comics”, describing his work as “hip, muted, fragmented, overly-short short stories that this moron is trying to pass off as fresh and original”. ![]() In the early sections of The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist, Tomine achieves his breakthrough deal and releases his first graphic novel with Drawn and Quarterly – for which achievement he’s angrily chastised as a “sell-out” at a comics convention. The epigraph comes from fellow alternative comics legend Daniel Clowes, who compares being a famous cartoonist to being “the most famous badminton player”: all the stresses and pressures of being at the forefront of an industry, without the fame or fortune to make it worthwhile. ![]()
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