"The Connecting Thread" is a story of a young woman convinced that she is being watched from afar by a mysterious admirer who repeatedly places advertisements about her in the "I Saw You" section of her local newspaper. Issue Two contains four stories entitled "The Connecting Thread," "Summer Job," "Pink Frosting" and "Layover," and was published by Drawn & Quarterly in November 1995. Issue One contains five stories entitled "Sleepwalk," "Echo Ave.," "Long Distance," "Drop" and "Lunch Break," and was published by Drawn & Quarterly in April 1995. After an extended hiatus, Tomine resumed the comic in late 2004 and began his first multi-issue storyline, "Shortcomings," with #9. In the initial self-published issues, as well as the first eight Drawn & Quarterly issues (1995–2001), Optic Nerve was typically a collection of short stories. Many topics of his stories are at least partly autobiographical. Many of his stories for Optic Nerve feature Asian American characters, including "Hawaiian Getaway," "Six-Day Cold," "Layover," and "Shortcomings." Adrian Tomine is Asian American and lives in Brooklyn, New York. Tomine's style and subject matter are restrained and realistic. Originally self-published by Tomine in 1991 as a series of mini-comics (which have later been collected in a single volume, 32 Stories), the series has been published by Drawn & Quarterly since 1995. Optic Nerve is a comic book series by cartoonist Adrian Tomine.
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