Asterios Polyp - David Mazzucchelli
The title character, Asterios Polyp, is a professor and architect of Greek and Italian descent who teaches at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York.
After a lightning strike burns up his apartment, he leaves the city on a
Greyhound bus and takes up employment as an auto mechanic in the town
of Apogee (somewhere in America), the farthest point his money will take
him...
The book has sold over 40,000 copies since its publication in July 2009; it is now in its fourth printing. It won the first Los Angeles Times Book Prize Graphic Novel award. It received four 2010 Eisner Award nominations and won for best new graphic album, best writer/artist and best lettering.
