the loneliness of the long distance cartoonist by adrian tomine

( Laughs) I should tell that to all the journalists who keep asking me, how did you come up with the idea for this book? Reading the end of the book, you almost negate traditional interview questions like, ‘where does this book come from?’ You’re very clear with the final section of the book - it’s literally the origin of the book. So there is always some kind of twist to my life. Although now we’re in quarantine, and I’m talking about a book about isolation and loneliness. One of the main concerns that I had about that was that the present day experience could have possibly eclipsed some of the material in the book, and I would feel like, ‘no, no, no, this is the real stuff!’ And of course, now none of that transpired. In the winter, when we were making our plans for the book tour that got canceled, I started really having this sensation that I was going to be having a Charlie Kaufman kind of experience traveling around the country and going to poorly attended events, talking about a book about going to traveling around and going to poorly attended events. Well, it would have been much more surreal If it’s the book tour had had gone according to plan, you know. Is it strange promoting that work now, and dealing with other people’s reactions to it? The book portrays how strange it is promoting work and, in many ways, dealing with other people’s reactions to that work. I want to start with something that’s a joke and not a joke at the same time. The Hollywood Reporter talked to Tomine about lessons learned from returning to scenes from some particularly humiliating crimes. How Parker Finn's 'Smile' Went From Streaming to Theatrical in a Single Night

The loneliness of the long distance cartoonist by adrian tomine