![]() Furthermore, comedy isn’t the first genre description that comes to mind when considering Tomine, yet he’s a natural at illustrative one panel gags, the set-up and punchline strip and at observational humour. ![]() Tomine’s work features envious draughtsmanship, but this loses none of his skill while having a greater life to it, the people more expressive as presented in sketched ink. ![]() The separation point is spontaneity, a letting go rather than a scrunching tight. Scenes From an Impending Marriage could be seen as an adjunct to Tomine’s main catalogue of melancholic introspection, but is actually more appealing than some of his serious works. He follows all the way through to the first night of the marriage in the honeymoon suite, finally defying expectation, having established it early. ![]() Beginning with the discussion concerning potential guests (names advisedly redacted), then working through choice of venue, invitations, DJ and other necessities, Tomine applies a healthy dose of self-awareness to what, after all, are first world traumas. ![]() Perhaps as a way to work through the stress common to almost everyone in the Western world planning a marriage, Adrian Tomine dived for his sketchbook and began drawing the brief strips collected for this small hardcover book detailing the progress of his wedding plans. ![]()
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