Summer Blonde Paperback – June 1, 2003

WOW ....Tomine always makes me think when I read his work. I had to look at myself and think if I was as negative as the Summer Blonde lead character. Not only does this have stunning drawings but, Adrian really knows how to capture a person and dissect them. If you enjoy any of Adrian's work I suggest you write him an old fashioned hand letter and thank him. He doesn't believe in FB or other social Media, nor should he.....his work will be passed down like old mythology on onion skin paper through the sounds of harps--or just paper and old prints not destroyed by revolutions of the future. ENJOY

I loved this from start to finish. It's truly a realistic, "slice of pie" style story. I've never read anything like this, and I was upset when I finished it because I wanted more. Finished this in one night.

Tomine gives the reader an intimate look into the lives of about a dozen pitiful, often bordering on creepy or pathetic, characters in 4 different stories. The dialog is fluid, the landscapes are simple but well crafted, and the characters mannerisms are well articulated through the art.I'd love to give it a five star review, but the author did too good a job making me feel creeped out by the end of it.

Four stories about 20-something people with dysfuntional social lives. The Summer Blonde story is about a sexy girl who cheats on her lame boyfriend, and the obsessive loner who fantasizes about her. Hawaiian Getaway is about an overweight 27 year old, out of a job, and has trouble with men. These stories were written in the late 90's, a time when bulky computers were the norm, starbucks wasn't full of laptops, and nobody surfed the web from an iPhone. It was a time when we talked on the phone, made plans to meet and showed up, and wrote with pens and paper.I wonder if today's 20-somethings will be able to relate to any of this?

Just like his other two books of collections, this one is another SLAP in your FACE, when it comes to your emotions. As I read the stories I get drawn into the charcaters' simple events, yet complex emotions surrounding those events and feel hit when the end comes. I love how all of Tomines stories are dreary, having and/or not having closure at the same time, depending on how you look at it. I also enjoy the fact that his stories get progressively longer (from the first book on) and so this books is full of 4 long stories. The graphics are good and do an amazing job at expressing emotions and reactions of the characters. Also, I love how all his comics are based on a miserable real world and are told truthfully.

These stories! What can I say? Can't stop reading them even though there are several years since they first draw my attention. Storytelling art at its finest. Could stand as literacy alone too. Could stand as movies alone too.Definitely in my top 5 of all time (and probably of all arts).A very nice choice of Optic Nerve stories too by the way. Get all the others too. There is nothing more this guy has created that I can get. Andrian more pleeeeeease. [email protected]

I appreciated each story and enjoyed it just as much as Short Comings. There is definitely a finger print his story telling. I would recommend this book for anyone who wants to read something different and enjoys watching paneled train wrecks.

superb!!!please buy if you have any interest and if with shipping it comes out to around $8!!!not to say it is only worth that much, but if it will only cost you that little then please pay!!

must buy for Adrian Tomine's snippets of realism in conversations

すごく素敵な話し‼️それぞれのページは一つの世界です。gourmetの読書者向けの本です。

Cet ouvrage regroupe 4 histoires d'Adrian Tomine, un auteur réputé de comics américain. Les thèmes des histoires tournent autour des affres de l'adolescence et du début de la vie d'adulte, de la difficulté de trouver sa place et son chemin dans la vie. C'est doux-amer, romantique, d'un réalisme un peu cru et parfois pathétique.C'est en tout cas très moderne, écrit et dessiné avec un talent indéniable, et l'ensemble dégage énormément de charme.Ces histoires sonnent juste, ce sont de petites tranches de vie poignantes.Les chutes sont très réussies.Le vocabulaire utilisé est très accessible, ça se lit facilement avec un niveau de lecture moyen en anglais.

I've created since my childwood the idea that comics was a thing for kids (i guess the last comic i've read was some disney ones) ... but lately ... i've been reading a few reviews about comics, and i've heard "here and ther" some friends talking about that comics can be, deep, without super-heroes, with a story about regular people with regular lives ...... i start wondering, and curiosity took place ... so ...... I bought "Summer Blonde" by Adrian Tomine ... and i was blown away .. comics can really be a more "adult" reading !!!!.... the draws are amazing ... and the stories very well "told" ........ i was so amazed that i've read the book in ah hour or so .... it was my 1st comic read in more than 10years ... and i simply loved it ....

This is the mostboring graphic novel I have ever opened... and the only one I couldn't finish.