Paul Auster’s acclaimed New York trilogy is being adapted into a complete graphic novel by Pantheon.
The first novel in the series, City of Glass, was adapted into a comic book in 1994 by writer Paul Karasik and artist David Mazzucchelli. Although out of print, a new edition in 2004 made it a cult classic and was published. It has been published in more than 30 editions worldwide and is excerpted in the Norton Postmodern Fiction Anthology. Even in its original form, this book helped solidify the value of the graphic novel format itself.
Thirty years later, the rest of Auster’s trilogy has been adapted, all written by Karasik, and collected into a single edition this April. “Ghosts” is adapted with illustrations by the great Lorenzo Mattotti, and “The Locked Room” will be drawn by Karasik. Neither has ever been published.
Despite a week of incredible news, the information that Lorenzo Mattotti has written an all-new adaptation of Paul Auster’s New York trilogy remains surprising.
For those who don’t know:
The New York Trilogy is postmodern literature masquerading as a noir novel, where language is the prime suspect. An interpretation of detective and mystery novels, each book explores a different philosophical theme. In City of Glass, a detective novelist investigates a murder and descends into madness. Ghost features a secret eye named Blue who tracks a man named Black for a client named White. This too ends with the protagonist’s downfall. And in The Locked Room, another author is experiencing writer’s block and hopes to break out of it by solving the disappearance of a childhood friend.
Karasik is a key figure in literary comics, starting out as an associate editor at RAW magazine, later co-authoring How to Read Nancy, helping reintroduce Fletcher Hanks to modern comics readers, and more. He has achieved many achievements. He draws cartoons for the New Yorker magazine and many other things.
The combined edition will be released on April 8th. The original City of Glass was a unique masterpiece that powerfully combined Auster’s wordplay and allusions with Mazzucchelli’s imagery, proving the format’s unique storytelling potential. . The completed trilogy arrives in a completely different world…but no less fascinating.
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