Review: ‘Asterios Polyp’ by David Mazzucchelli
Asterios Polyp David Mazzucchelli Pantheon, July 2009, $29.95 Comics are an essentially mongrel art, bred out of the scraps of two prior art-forms in the great kennel of popular culture. That’s no bad thing, despite what the mandarins might say – mongrels typically have the strengths of both parents, without the fussiness and decadent weakness…