Asterios Polyp is a blowhard, a "paper architect" who is renowned for his conceptual genius but has never had a project come to fruition. "I don't like drawing from life," he says with characteristic ...

One of the most talented comics artists of this generation, David Mazzucchelli first came to prominence as a superhero artist before moving on to make his reputation as a cartoonist of rare literary ...

Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli has just won the French Comics Critics Association Award, for Best Album. This is often seen as a good guide to the winner of the Best Album award at the large ...

Once again, a graphic novel exemplifying comics' ability to uniquely treat the themes of literary fiction has topped PW Comics Week's annual critics poll. David Mazzucchelli's long-awaited Asterios ...

Why do the finest graphic novels lodge in our heads the way even the finest novels rarely do? Why do the most tossed-off details or slivers of dialogue from Alan Moore’s “Watchmen” refuse to ...

You have to hand it to David Mazzucchelli. Few other cartoonists in the history of comics have successfully reinvented themselves as often as the 48-year-old New Yorker, who began his career working ...

Show someone a copy of Asterios Polyp and their reaction, upon skimming a page or two of David Mazzucchelli's deceptively simple, yet supremely innovative graphic novel, might be, "So why all the fuss ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. This is the 30th anniversary of the Los Angeles Times Book Prizes but ...

David Mazzucchelli has been around. After an apprenticeship in the 1980s drawing superhero comics (including “ Batman: Year One,” with Frank Miller), he spent the early 1990s producing three issues of ...

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