
' Adrian Tomine can draw think write & feel He sees everything he knows everything; he's in your apartment he's on the subway he's in your dreams He has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime' Zadie Smith In his first full-length work since Shortcomings in 2007 & working with colour for the first time Adrian Tomine has produced a darkly funny & deeply moving collection of stories which showcases his exceptional range of focus & technique A masterpiece about the anxieties of being alive in the twenty-first century Killing & Dying is Tomine's most ambitious & empathetic work to date Born in Sacramento in 1974 Adrian Tomine is the author of the acclaimed comic series Optic Nerve His books include Shortcomings Summer Blonde Sleepwalk Scenes from an Impending Marriage & most recently New York Drawings all of which are published by Faber in the UK Since 1999 his comics & illustrations have appeared regularly in The New Yorker where he has created more than a dozen iconic covers He lives in Brooklyn New York with his wife & daughters