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But the new book by David Mazzucchelli may even be more eagerly anticipated than Spiegelman’s new work. Pantheon is publishing Asterios Polyp, Mazzucchelli’s long awaited graphic novel. A highly regarded comics professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York, Mazzucchelli is the author of such critically acclaimed works as the comics adaptation of Paul Auster’s novel City of Glass and worked with Frank Miller on the critically acclaimed superhero graphic novel Batman: Year One. Mazzucchelli has been working on the book for more than 10 years, and he has generally declined to say much of anything about it.

Frank also declined to say much about the book, but said the book’s title is the name of its central character, “a middle-aged architect and academic who has never actually built anything.” Frank said the character’s only accomplishment is a “book called Modernism with a Human Face and the story follow his life after he’s struck by lightning.”

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