There doesn't seem to be a comprehensive bibliography of comic artist Adrian Tomine anywhere on the Internet, so this is my attempt at one. Any input or additional information is appreciated.
Some background: Tomine started publishing his comic Optic Nerve (hereafter known as ON) in 1991, at age 17. It was a self-published mini-comic and in the next three years seven issues were published, its circulation growing from 25 to several thousand. In 1994 Tomine signed up with Drawn and Quarterly and continued to do Optic Nerve as a regular-sized comic, starting again from issue #1. The Optic Nerve mini-comics were collected in their entirety as 32 Stories, but have been purposely left out of print as single issues. My only information regarding the mini-comics comes from 32 Stories, which doesn't indicate the issue each story was originally published in and only a few of the comics themselves are dated. The current run of Optic Nerve has so far been collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories and Summer Blonde.
Optic Nerve mini-comics
- August 1991
- November 1991
- January 1992
- June 1992
- February 1993
- September 1993
- August 1994
Optic Nerve #1
Published in April 1995, all stories are collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories
- Sleepwalk
- Echo Ave.
- Long Distance
- Drop
- Lunch Break
Optic Nerve #2
Published in November 1995, all stories are collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories
- The Connecting Thread
- Summer Job
- Pink Frosting
- Layover
Optic Nerve #3
Published in August 1996, all stories are collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories
- Dylan & Donovan
- Supermarket
- Hostage Situation
- Unfaded
Optic Nerve #4
Published in April 1997, all stories are collected in Sleepwalk and Other Stories
- Six Day Cold
- Fourth of July
- Hazel Eyes
Optic Nerve #5
Published in February 1998, collected in Summer Blonde
- Alter Ego
Optic Nerve #6
Published in February 1999, collected in Summer Blonde
- Hawaiian Getaway
Optic Nerve #7
Published in June 2000, collected in Summer Blonde
- Summer Blonde
Optic Nerve #8
Published in February 2001, collected in Summer Blonde, reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002
- Bomb Scare
32 Stories
Published in softcover in January 1995
- Man's Best (1991)
- Birdnoise
- Adrian Tomine's 10,553rd Dream (1991)
- Solitary Enjoyment (1992)
- Heat Wave Death
- Sean's Story
- Disappointment and Despair
- Back Break (1991)
- Patriotism is Alive and Kicking (1991)
- Rodney (1992)
- This is a True Story
- Adrian Quits His Job
- All Choked Up (1992)
- Psycho Cook
- An Everyday Triumph (1991)
- Kerouac's Life with Comics (1992)
- Train I Ride
- Haircut (1992)
- Lifter (1993)
- Mike the Mod (1992)
- Two in the Morning (1993)
- My Appearance on the Jane Pratt Show (1993)
- Leather Jacket (1993)
- Allergic (1993)
- Smoke (1993)
- The Sell-out (1993)
- Stammer (1994)
- Happy Anniversary (1994)
- Laundry (1994)
- Sleep = Waste (1994)
- Dine and Dash (1994)
- Grind (1994)
Sleepwalk and Other Stories
Collects Optic Nerve #1-#4, published in signed/numbered hardcover edition in 1997, softcover edition in October 1998
- Sleepwalk (ON #1)
- Echo Ave. (ON #1)
- Long Distance (ON #1)
- Drop (ON #1)
- Lunch Break (ON #1)
- Summer Job (ON #2)
- The Connecting Thread (ON #2)
- Pink Frosting (ON #2)
- Layover (ON #2)
- Supermarket (ON #3)
- Hostage Situation (ON #3)
- Dylan & Donovan (ON #3)
- Unfaded (ON #3)
- Six Day Cold (ON #4)
- Fourth of July (ON #4)
- Hazel Eyes (ON #4)
Summer Blonde
Collects Optic Nerve #5-#8, published in hardcover and signed/numbered hardcover in July 2002, softcover in July 2003
- Alter Ego (ON #5)
- Summer Blonde (ON #7)
- Hawaiian Getaway (ON #6)
- Bomb Scare (ON #8, reprinted in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2002)
Info compiled from the Drawn and Quarterly website (www.drawnandquarterly.com), graphic novels cited and Amazon.com.