![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Mazzucchelli’s comeback will take many by surprise, as he strikingly mutates and multiplies his approaches and themes. These are some of the first tasters which he’s allowed the public to see. Perhaps inevitably, some unsanctioned scans have leaked out online, only stoking anticipation still higher. Like Steve Ditko, or Thomas Pynchon, he insists that this work is to speak for itself, and to speak for him too. He’s also vetoed any interviews, signings or appearances, publicity of any kind (although he has agreed to do a special book plate for Gosh! Comics, London). ![]() So he’s tried to keep a lid on things before the book actually "drops". From the advance colour photocopies I’ve been privileged to read, Mazzucchelli has really thrown down the gauntlet here and produced something extraordinary, something which he wants readers to come to as fresh and unprepared as possible. Weighing in at a wopping 344 pages, this is his big, bold statement, his first true one-man magnum opus, in which he has challenged himself and now challenges his peers. This June, after a hiatus of some fifteen years since his last substantial project with Paul Karasik adapting Paul Auster’s City of Glass, David Mazzucchelli returns to the medium with one of the most eagerly awaited graphic novels of the year, the puzzlingly titled Asterios Polyp. ![]()
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