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King of Alternative Comics

By AAN Staff
october 18, 2002  05:12 pm
King of Alternative Comics
How does a geeky guy who rarely leaves the house and generally avoids human contact become a pop-culture icon? It helps if he draws alternative comics, a world where nerds rule, alienation is in, and there's no need to apologize for compulsively alphabetizing your CD collection. The hippest of the unhip these days is Berkeley's Adrian Tomine, a shy Japanese-American with a sardonic wit, Buddy Holly glasses and growing legions of fans who haunt comic-book stores to scoop up his sophisticated tales of Gen-X desperation. East Bay Express staff writer Melissa Hung's story reveals what we secretly already suspected: deep down, nerds are really pretty cool.
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