Asterios Polyp is his first graphic novel, and has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been listed as a New York Times notable book. Since then his short comics have been published in books and magazines around the world. Known chiefly for his collaborations - with Frank Miller on seminal Batman and Daredevil stories, and with Paul Karasik on an adaptation of Paul Auster's novel, City of Glass - he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine, Rubber Blanket. Hana, the young and sensitive sculptor, falls for Asterios despite his nearly unbearable ego and little patience for Hanna’s. David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. Asterios, an architect and professor whose draftsmanship and design ideas are renowned, never builds any of his blueprints he drifts along in a kind of cerebral prison, trapped in a golden cage of self-infatuation.

CORE-UA.711 Expressive Cultures: The Graphic Novel Fall 2022 M/W 4:55-6:10 Cantor 200 Prof. David Mazzucchelli has been making comics his whole life. View Graphic Novels Syllabus (Fall 2022).pdf from CORE-UA MISC at New York University.

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