Nerve center: The Honolulu Star-Bulletin and the Westchester, N.Y., Journal News profile cartoonist Adrian Tomine:

"I've always said that if you want to create a pretty good cartoonist, you've got to have the parents get divorced at an early age. You've got to have an older brother whose shadow looms over the cartoonist for much of his life. (You) have to be extremely underweight or extremely overweight."