Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy

‘A work of art that fully justifies its existence on its own terms … the comic driving you back to the novel, and vice versa.’ - Guardian on City of Glass‘Our supreme post-modernist.’ - Ian McEwan

Paul Auster was the bestselling author of 4 3 2 1, Sunset Park, The Book of Illusions, Moon Palace and The New York Trilogy. He and Spencer Ostrander collaborated on Bloodbath Nation. In 2006, he was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature. His other honours include the Prix Medicis Étranger for Leviathan, the Independent Spirit Award for the Screenplay of Smoke, the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Burning Boy, and the Carlos Fuentes Prize for his body of work. His novel 4 3 2 1 was shortlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work was translated into more than forty languages. His final novel, Baumgartner, was published in November 2023. He died on 30 April 2024.

Two-time Eisner Award winner, Paul Karasik, began his career as the Associate Editor of Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly’s RAW Magazine. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The New Yorker.

Lorenzo Mattotti is an Italian comics artist as well as an illustrator. His illustrations have been published in magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Vogue, The New Yorker, Le Monde, and Vanity Fair. In comics, Mattotti won an Eisner Award in 2003 for his graphic novel Dr. Jekyll & Mr Hyde.

David Mazzucchelli is known chiefly for his iconic collaboration with Frank Miller on seminal Batman and Daredevil stories. He published is own graphic novel, Asterios Polyp in 2009. His short comics have been published in books and magazines around the world.