Review 1:
"Enter ASTERIOS POLYP: a big, proud, ambitious chunk of a graphic novel, with modernism on its mind and a perfectly geometrical chip on its shoulder....The book is a satirical comedy of remarriage, a treatise on aesthetics and design and ontology, a late-life Künstleroman, a Novel of Ideas with two capital letters, and just about the most schematic work of fiction this side of that other big book that constantly alludes to the ODYSSEY."
07/26/2009
Review 2:
"For decades, Mazzucchelli has been a master without a masterpiece. No he has one. His long-awaited graphic novel is a huge, knotty marvel, the comics equivalent of a Pynchon or Gaddis novel...." (starred review)
02/09/2009
Review 3:
"ASTERIOS POLYP reads like an intricately designed and heartfelt work of metafiction juggling design theory, philosophy and sly nods to other cartoonists to create a dryly funny masterpiece."
07/30/2009
Review 4:
"Even by the standards of the graphic novel, this cosmic epic pushes the creative envelope....A visual and even philosophical stunner." (starred review)
04/15/2009
Review 5:
"[A]n ambitious tale....[a] meticulously constructed work...." (starred review)
03/15/2009
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