This past Wednesday we here at Skylight were graced by a visit from graphic artists Adrian Tomine & Seth. Easily, one of the biggest events we've had, people were packed into 1814 shoulder to shoulder like a show at the Smell. Truly awesome.
The event itself was great: complete with power point projection, self-deprecation, and dead pan humor. Seth read fragmented sketches from his life, punctuated by the DING! of a bell used as transition. He shared anecdotes of his friendship with Chester Brown, and spoke about the work of local fav Joe Matt.
Tomine then took the stage, confessing that 32 Stories made him cringe. He feels he overdid it with the translation from zine to book form, and thinks it now works better in the original pamphlet format that had been collected into a little brown cardboard box. (...cough, cough Signed copies available now at Skylight Books, cough, cough...) The time period when he worked on the mini-comics that make up the collection, he considers to be the only time he has ever felt fully in control. They helped him survive high school.
Some choice tidbits from the Q&A (as transcribed by Skylighter Darren to twitter):
TOMINE: Comics translated into movies. Doesn't understand the slavish devotion to exactly replicating the comic.
SETH: would rather not write a screenplay, but has no problem with people adapting his work.
TOMINE: Gets a lot of requests from film students to adapt his work. Said he's read a screenplay that was better than the work itself.
SETH: Thanks the Canadian government for helping his career.
TOMINE: More Tatsumi stuff on the way...
Also from Arlo via Twitter, and this says it all: "tingling and pensive. receiving the aftershocks of this massive and gloriously massive event. (massive). pensive and tingling." Thanks to Adrian and Seth, and everyone who came out - it was a great time.
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