This week’s New York Magazine features a short piece called “Comics Relief: Finally, the Great New York (Graphic Novel). The novel in question is called Asterios Polyp, and it’s by David Mazzucchelli, who worked with Frank Miller on Batman: Year One and with Paul Karasik on City of Glass (1994), which was deemed the best New York graphic novel ever by a group of cartoonists in a New York magazine piece published in March.
The title character is middle-aged architect and teacher, a bit of an aesthete, and a bit of a womanizer, whose life is turned upside-down by a fire in his apartment in New York City. Asterios leaves the Big Apple for a small town in the Midwest where he reinvents himself as an auto mechanic. And apparently descends, Aeneas-like, into the underworld.
I have not read the above but I just discovered this today:
http://www.ep.tc/problems/
It’s basically a collection of public service announcements in the form of popular comics.
The very informative “VD Claptrap” evokes audible groans, and not because of the detailed medical content. It’s the puns that occur in the banter between Capt. Vee-Dee and Ms. Wanda Lust.