Whisky Prajer (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
... still young and passionate enough to collect the complete works of a beloved author, I picked up David Mazzucchelli's adaptation of City ( A ). This seemed a curious pairing of talents: prior to this I only knew Mazzucchelli as the artist who fleshed out Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One ( A ). In retrospect, the pairing of Miller to Mazzucchelli was no less unusual....
The Comics Journal (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
When it comes to conversations about the art of comics, you could hardly ask for a better intergenerational pairing than David Mazzucchelli and Dash...
Graphic Novels Challenge (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli Pages: 344 First Published: Jul.7, 2009 Rating: 4/5 First sentence: mmm...oohh.. that's good... Reason for Reading: Cybils nominee Summary: The book opens with a man watching, presumably, a pornographic movie, when his building is hit by lightning and catches fire. Such is how we meet Asterios Polyp, 50 year old architect. He grabs a few trinkets and...
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday
The Best American Comics 2009 (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 332 pages; $22). This always-enjoyable annual collection features work by Daniel Clowes, Laura Park and Adrian Tomine. Asterios Polyp, by David Mazzucchelli (Pantheon; 344 pages; $29.95). Mazzucchelli'...
The Millions (A Blog About Books) (Free subscription) | yesterday
This year’s New York Times Notable Books of the Year list is out. At 100 titles, the list is more of a catalog of the noteworthy than a distinction. Sticking with the fiction exclusively, it appears that we touched upon a few of these books as well: The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker ( a most anticipated book ) Asterios Polyp by David Mazzucchelli ( my review , Millions Top Ten book )...
THE BEAT (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Publishers Weekly has published its Best Books of 2009 list and David Small’s STITCHES was named one of the Top Ten books OVERALL. There is also a Best 11 graphic novels: Parker: The Hunter, Darwyn Cooke and Richard Stark (IDW) Driven by Lemons, Josh Cotter (AdHouse) Logicomix: An Epic Search for Truth,Apostolos Doxiadis and Christos H. Papadimitriou with [...]
Comics And... (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
... native Brazil. With DAYTRIPPER, they follow in the tradition of Craig Thompson, Paul Pope and David Mazzucchelli cartoonists at the top of their game making comics about the quiet moments that ask big questions. Brás de Oliva Domingos is an obituary writer with a famous father, a career he hates, and tons of questions. How does a person become a successful writer? How does...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here's the archive of the moments posted so far! Here's the last moment from our look at Batman: Year One! In Batman #407, by writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli, [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 17/10/2009
Here is the latest cool comic book moment in our year-long look at one cool comic book moment a day (in no particular order whatsoever)! Here's the archive of the moments posted so far! We continue our look at Batman: Year One moments!! Okay, so Batman #404, written by Frank Miller and drawn by David Mazzucchelli, [...]
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... contrast in coloring). On to Year One! Okay, in Batman #405, by writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli, Lt. Gordon is investigating who Batman might actually be, and he's checking District Attorney Harvey Dent - at the same time, Gordon is dealing with a simmering attraction between himself and Sgt. Sarah Essen, an attraction that does not come at a good time, seeing as...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... the last two days of Year One moments! Okay, so in Batman #404 (by writer Frank Miller and artist David Mazzucchelli), Bruce Wayne has finally decided to fight crime after training for it his whole adult life. The thing is, his initial disguise (normal clothes just with a big scar to disguise himself) has not been exactly met with much in the way of fear or respect, and on his first...
The Fate of the Artist (Free subscription) | 15/10/2009
... story of this Japanese enterprise is also worth reading). The thing that always impressed me about David Mazzucchelli back when he was doing the regular comic book stuff, was his sense of place. No other artist came near him in this. He gave you all the details that make one street different from every other street: The atmospheric qualities that make an exterior different from an...
Comics Should Be Good! (Free subscription) | 16/10/2009
... of Batman: Year One moments!! In Batman #406 (written by Frank Miller and drawn to perfection by David Mazzucchelli), Batman is trapped in an apartment with pretty much the entire Gotham City SWAT team in trying to take him down. Naturally, he wishes not to be taken down (or taken in, for that matter). Batman's only companion is a stray cat who is stuck in the building with him -...
