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Monday, July 27, 2009

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli - Worth the 16-Year Wait!

Asterios Polyp and Rubber Blanket by David Mazzucchelli

David Mazzucchelli is one of my favorite cartoonists from the late-eighties and early nineties, but he seemed to drop off the face of the Earth after creating three issues of his “Rubber Blanket” comic, and adapting Paul Auster’s City of Glass. Finally...

...after sixteen years
of hoping and waiting,
he has released his first new original book since 1993's Rubber Blanket #3 -- Asterios Polyp …
is David Mazzucchelli’s new full-color 344-page magnum opus…

definitely worth waiting for!

I just spent the weekend reading this marvelous and engaging and challenging and inspiring graphic novel. It’s huge, sprawling, lovely, multi-layered, melancholy, beautiful…can you tell I loved it?

I was sad that I finished it, but I will probably start from the beginning again very soon.

I’m not going to attempt to describe the plot or characters…you’ll want to discover all that for yourself. Anyway. this gorgeous book is published by Pantheon Books, so it should be available at regular bookstores or better comic shops. If you can't find it there, you can always find it (at a discount) at Amazon.com. ENJOY!

And if you've already read it, I'd love to chat
about it through the comments section below.