Adrian Tomine’s “Everlasting Youth” | The New Yorker

No matter mother and father’ makes an attempt to be cool, there comes an age at which their youngsters discover every little thing about them mortifying. For the quilt of the June 24, 2024, subject, the cartoonist Adrian Tomine portrays a younger preteen making an attempt to distance herself from her progenitors. “I’ve to confess that I waste loads of time fascinated with the right way to not embarrass my youngsters, by calibrating how a lot slang I ought to use or by assessing how a lot curvature there must be within the brim of my baseball cap,” Tomine stated. “As with many features of parenting, I do know I’ll fail miserably on this, however I hope my daughters give me factors for making an attempt.”