Working: Adrian Tomine’s Drawings Tell Rich, Complex Stories

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🗓️ 26 July 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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This week, host Rumaan Alam talks to cartoonist and New Yorker cover artist Adrian Tomine, who just released a graphic memoir called The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Cartoonist. In the interview, Adrian talks about what it was like for his childhood hobby to become a full-time job, and how his art has evolved over the years. After the interview, co-host June Thomas interviews Slate writers Dahlia Lithwick and Molly Olmstead about a massive piece of journalism they’ve put together about the women in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s class at Harvard Law School. To hear the audio version of the piece, subscribe to Slate’s Amicus podcast. Send your questions about creativity and any other feedback to [email protected]. And if you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on Working. It’s only $35 for the first year, and you can get a free two-week trial. Sign up now to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:28.1	Te's and sees apply. It's very strange when a childhood hobby turns into a lifelong career to feel that kind of responsibility like if I don't produce more of these
0:48.3	comic books my children won't eat and it's it's still ongoing.
0:55.0	Welcome back to working.
1:00.0	Welcome back to working.
1:01.0	I'm your host June Thomas. And I'm your other host
1:04.3	Raman Alam.
1:05.3	Raman! This week you spoke with cartoonist Adrian Tomine, whose voice we just heard.
1:10.3	I'm looking forward to hearing that interview but first you had some big news right does it change your life
1:16.6	It has been a strange week for sure I this week sold the rights to my forthcoming novel. They were bought by the writer and
1:24.4	director Sam Esmail who intends to develop the story as a film for Netflix.
1:28.9	But you know it's incredibly exciting it's really a honor. The book is not even out in the world.
1:35.0	And the fact that it's connected with a reader like Sam is really, really gratifying.
1:39.0	And I hope that it bodes well for the book's life when it emerges into the rest of the world in October.
1:46.0	Well, I'm currently reading, I should say, your forthcoming novel, which is called Leave the World Behind,
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