The triumphant return of one of comics’ greatest talents, with an engrossing story of one man’s search for love, meaning, sanity, & perfect architectural proportions. An epic story long awaited, & well worth the wait.MeetAsterios Polyp: middle-aged, meagerly successful architect & teacher, aesthete & womanizer, whose life is wholly upended when hisNew York Cityapartment goes up in flames. In a tenacious daze, he leaves the city & relocates to a small town in the American heartland. But what is this “escape” really about?As the story unfolds, moving between the present and the past, we begin to understand this confounding yet fascinating character, & how he’s gotten to where he is. And isn’t. And we meet Hana: a sweet, smart, first-generationJapanese Americanartist with whom he had made a blissful life. But now she’s gone. DidAsteriosdo something to drive her away? What has happened to her? Is she even alive? All the questions will be answered, eventually.In the meantime, we are enthralled byMazzucchelli’sextraordinarily imagined world of brilliantly conceived eccentrics, sharply observed social mores, & deftly depicted asides on everything from design theory to the nature of human perception.Asterios PolypisDavid Mazzucchelli’smasterpiece: a great American graphic novel.°°°DAVID MAZZUCCHELLIhas been making comics his whole life. Known chiefly for his collaborations— withFrank Milleron seminalBatman &Daredevilstories, & withPaul Karasikon an adaptation ofPaul Auster’snovel,City of Glass—he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine,Rubber Blanket. Since then his short comics have been published in books & magazines around the world.Asterios Polypis his first graphic novel, & has won theLos Angeles Times Book Prize& been listed as aNew York Timesnotable book.