Last March, New York asked the city’s top comics figures to vote for the ultimate New York graphic novel. The winner, in a landslide, was a slim book that’s been in and out of print since 1994: City ...

North American distributor Marcone Group announced the appointment of Asterios Satrazemis as its new President and Chief Executive Officer where he will spearhead Marcone’s next chapter of expansion ...

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 ...

Modernism came late to comics. Cartoonists are naturally stylistic chameleons, selecting and altering visual techniques to serve their subjects. But explicitly presenting style as content? That’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Recibió su formación artística en la Rhode Island School of Design y empezó como profesional en el mundo de la historieta a principios de la década de 1980. Tras varios años trabajando para Marvel ...

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 ...

Finally, after a decade of silence, Mazzucchelli has returned with his own graphic novel, Asterios Polyp: sprawling, trippy, moving, and a hell of a lot of fun. When we first meet the brilliant and ...