Work is such a throwback that it unabashedly wears its antecedents on its Their metafictional techniques are revolutionary and profound. In post-modern literature, the way in which its practitioners act as if And, like William Goldman's Princessīride, that sense of fun serves to lighten what can often be most ponderous Identities and allusions to other works that the comic book format is especially The genre end up back in comic book form, however glorified.Īctually, Auster himself indulges in so many games with language, shifting It seems only natural to have this most modern (or post-modern) riff on Since many of the great hard boiled dicks first appeared in pulp fiction, Implicit in film noir : identity, fate, good and evil, randomness, etc. In a sense it brings the story full circle, because in the original novelĪuster used the conventions of the private eye story to explore the issues Graphic novel version of City of Glass by Paul Auster is terrific.
I don't know how Neon Lit fared with the rest of the project, but this Paul’s work has appeared in The New York Times and The New Yorker.(adapted by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli) He garnered his Eisner Awards for an anthology celebrating forgotten comics visionary, Fletcher Hanks, and for “How To Read Nancy”, a scholarly book about the language of comics co-written with Mark Newgarden. Paul and his sister, Judy, authored “The Ride Together, a Memoir of Autism in the Family”, winner of the Autism Society of America’s “Best Literary Work of the Year”.Īs the co-editor of “Masters of American Comics”, the coffee-table companion catalogue to the first major American exhibition of comics co-sponsored by the Hammer and MOCCA Museums, he worked with 15 great writers (Stanley Crouch, Dave Eggers, Pete Hammill, Jonathan Safran Foer, Robert Storr, et al.) to write about 15 great cartoonists. With David Mazzuchelli he created, “City of Glass”, the graphic novel adaptation of Paul Auster’s book, named by The Comics Journal as one of the “Best Comics of the 20th Century”. Two-time Eisner Award winner, Paul Karasik, is an internationally recognized cartoonist and teacher who began his career as the Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly’s RAW magazine.
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