“”Asterios Polyp”” by cartoonist David Mazzucchelli is one of the best and most ambitious graphic novels of the year. Asterios Polyp is an architect whose designs, while award-winning, have never ...

So … we can all stop reading comics now, because David Mazzucchelli has crafted the ultimate comic book statement. Just take everything on your reading pile right ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You have to hand it to David Mazzucchelli. Few other cartoonists in the history of comics have successfully reinvented themselves as often as the 48-year-old New Yorker, who began his career working ...