32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics

Author: Adrian Tomine

In 1991, Adrian Tomine self-published the first issue of Optic Nerve. Consisting of three xeroxed sheets of paper, and with a print run of twenty-five, it was a less-than-auspicious, largely unnoticed debut. In the following three years, though, Optic Nerve developed at a startlingly rapid pace: the artwork and writing evolved with each story, production quality improved,….Read More

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32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics

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