Yet despite Mazzucchelli’s silence on the matter-he declined to talk about the work in progress, at least to the media-there have been plenty of rumors that he was at work on his first original book length comic (The book is currently published by Bloomsbury USA.) Nevertheless, since its publication Mazzucchelli has not produced another book length work of comics fiction.
First published in 2004 by Avon Books under the art direction of Art Speigelman, City of Glass: The Graphic Novel has gone on to be considered one of the great literary graphic novels of its time. After helping redefine Batman for a new generation of superhero comics readers, Mazzucchelli turned his attention to working on a series of eccentric, literary and highly personal comics.ĭuring these years he published Rubber Blanket, a series of highly regarded, self-published collections of short works, before collaborating with writer Paul Karasik on the comics adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel City of Glass. In the meantime, we are enthralled by Mazzucchelli’s extraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, and deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.Īsterios Polyp is David Mazzucchelli’s masterpiece: a great American graphic novel.Mazzucchelli started out working on various books for Marvel Comics before he moved to DC Comics in the late 1980s to draw Batman Year One, a groundbreaking Batman origin story written by another comics iconoclast, Frank Miller, and hailed for its gritty and dramatic contemporary reimagination of the beginnings of the classic noir superhero.
Did Asterios do something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generation Japanese American artist with whom he had made a blissful life. But what is this “escape” really about?Īs the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, and how he’s gotten to where he is. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city and relocates to a small town in the American heartland.
Meet Asterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect and teacher, aesthete and womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when his New York City apartment goes up in flames. An epic story long awaited, and well worth the wait. The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, and perfect architectural proportions.
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