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If you're changing diapers and going to the playground, any ambitions of being a cool guy have to fly out the window.

Adrian Tomine

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Adrian Tomine
Age: 50
Born: 1974
Born: May 31
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Illustrator
Novelist
Sacramento
California
Changing
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Playground
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