[7 bits of copy to fit the 7 boxes] Picking up from his earlier collection Sleepwalk, and the precursor to his award-winning Shortcomings, the four stories in Summer Blonde are quintessential Tomine. Memorably featuring characters such as Neil, Carlo and Hillary Chan, among others, these are beautiful and haunting tales that illustrate with great sympathy the loneliness and bleak humour of modern life. Praise for Adrian Tomine and Shortcomings: 'Funny, spare and expressively drawn . A superb piece of work.' Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph 'Beautiful, precise and strangely cinematic.' Independent on Sunday 'In crisp spare lines, he captures in all its excruciating, disappointing absurdity a single moment and makes from it our world.' Junot Diacute;az 'As deceptively relaxed and perfect as a comic book gets.' Jonathan Lethem.