

He collaborated on Frank Miller's Batman: Year One and adapted Paul Auster's City of Glass to graphic novel form in 1994.


Mazzucchelli originally started in comics, illustrating for Marvel and DC. "Things are always in the wrong place." In this graphic novel's opening pages, Mother Nature tests that theory with a well-placed lightning strike that razes his Manhattan apartment and ignites something of a spiritual reckoning "I don't like drawing from life," he says with characteristic rigidness. Asterios Polyp is a blowhard, a "paper architect" who is renowned for his conceptual genius but has never had a project come to fruition.
