![]() ![]() ![]() That period, however, appears to have ended with the publication of Mazzucchelli’s first solo graphic novel, “Asterios Polyp,” the story of a “paper architect. “What I wanted to do was just go back to the roots of what I liked about art in the first place,” he has said of those days, and the same might apply to the last 15 years, in which Mazzucchelli has essentially gone quiet, producing covers for the New Yorker and teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design. ![]() 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 the comics magazine Rubber Blanket his work on the 1994 adaptation of Paul Auster’s “City of Glass” initiated the Neon Lit series of graphic novels and suggested a new, more nuanced approach to the form. ![]()
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