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