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  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179819
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99
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Agony




Mark Beyer's outrageously dire, eccentrically charming black comedy is one of the great graphic novels of the Eighties, and a timelessly strange vision of urban life.

ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts,  and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. It’s the perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy’s skin would grow back ...

This NYRC edition features a recreation of the original, pocket-size, slipcovered paperback, designed by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.

  • Published: 15 April 2016
  • ISBN: 9781590179819
  • Imprint: NY Review Books
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 192
  • RRP: $29.99
Categories:

Praise for Agony

"These are some of my favorite comics of all time, and surely the most perfectly realized vision of urban despair ever to hit the comic page. A must for any fan of bleakness and misery." -- Dan Clowes

"Exquisite poems of urban despair, dreamy and nightmarish." -- Chip Kidd

"Perhaps the ultimate urban nightmare comic.... Mark Beyer [is] not only an extremely funny cartoonist, but one of the most progressive as well." -- Time

"He's one of the flukiest geniuses in comics." -- LA Weekly

"A childhood hell palpitating with adult neuroses." -- Village Voice

"Beyer's work is universal at its heart, exaggerating the humor, paranoia, depression and exaltation we all feel sometimes.... One of the masters of the form." -- Publishers Weekly

"Beyer's seminal strip is a terrifying New York of the mind." -- Dash Shaw

"I hope Mark Beyer's work will find a place in the canon.... A treasure of the comics medium." -- The Millions

"A complete and total original." -- Kaz

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