compiled into a single edition, 32 Stories: The Complete Optic Nerve Mini-Comics, published by Drawn & Quarterly. After Drawn & Quarterly became Tomine's publisher, Optic Nerve was published at standard comic book size, and the issue numbering was restarted, with the first Drawn & Quarterly-published issue renumbered as #1. These comics range from a few pages per story to the 32-page standard in later issues. Issues #1–4 included several stories each and were later collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories. Issues #5–8 included one story each and were collected in Summer Blonde. Issues #9–11 were compiled into the critically praised 2007 graphic novel Shortcomings, a complete story arc in which Tomine explored Asian American racial issues directly. Killing and Dying In 2015, Tomine's graphic novel Killing and Dying, a collection of six short stories, was released to critical acclaim and became a New York Times Bestseller. It was named one of New York Magazine’s Top 10 Graphic Novels of the Year and one of NPR‘s Best Books of the Year, and was winner of The Story Prize’s Spotlight Award. Stories from the book were also honored with an Eisner Award for Best Short Story and excerpted in The Best American Comics anthology. In its review of Killing and Dying, Wired magazine called Tomine “one of the most gifted graphic novelists of our time.” English author Zadie Smith praised the collection saying, “[Tomine] has more ideas in twenty panels than novelists have in a lifetime.” Comics artist Chris Ware said of the compilation: “As a serious cartoonist, one secretly hopes to create ‘That Book’: a book that can be passed to a literary-minded person who doesn’t normally read comics: one that doesn’t require any explanation or apology in advance and is developed enough in its attitude, humanity, and complexity that it speaks maturely for itself… Adrian Tomine‘s Killing and Dying may finally be That Book, and I’m amazed and heartened by it.” Album art Tomine has contributed to several rock bands‘ album packaging design, including liner notes and album art for Eels' Electro-Shock Blues, "Last Stop: This Town", "Cancer for the Cure", and End Times; Yo La Tengo's 2006 covers albums Yo La Tengo Is Murdering the Classics and Murder in the Second Degree; The Softies' It's Love; and The Crabs' What Were Flames Now Smolder. Commercial illustration and The New Yorker Tomine regularly works in commercial illustration. He frequently contributes