With a masterpiece about the anxieties of being alive in the twenty-first centur
y, Killing and Dying is Tomine's most ambitious and empathetic work to date. Bor
n in Sacramento in 1974, Adrian Tomine is the author of the acclaimed comic seri
es Optic Nerve. His books include Shortcomings, Summer Blonde, Sleepwalk, Scenes
from an Impending Marriage and, most recently, New York Drawings, all of which
are published by Faber in the UK.
