On the auction block: Adrian Tomine's 1-Page Story "The Donger and Me"...

On the auction block: Adrian Tomine's 1-Page Story "The Donger and Me"

2/9/2012

From a 2001 issue of Giant Robot magazine, this one-pager by Adrian Tomine has a bid of $500Adrian Tomine's cathartic one-page comic strip describes his personal feelings about actor Gedde Watanabe's portrayal of Long Duk Dong, in the John Hughes film, Sixteen Candles.

This strip was used as a tie-in to an NPR All [...]

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