The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist

Adrian Tomine’s The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist is a single-issue comic memoir from Drawn & Quarterly, released in 2020. In it, Tomine turns his keen observational eye on his own life, chronicling awkward encounters, professional anxieties, and the quiet absurdities of a cartoonist’s existence. Through his signature clean, expressive linework, the book offers a disarmingly honest and often humorous look behind the curtain of a celebrated career.