About This Book

Asterios Polyp, its arrogant, prickly protagonist, is an award-winning architect who's never built an actual building, and a pedant in the midst of a spiritual crisis. After the structure of his own life falls apart, he runs away to try to rebuild it into something new.

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Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album (Winners)
The Eisner Awards, presented each year at San Diego Comic-Con and named after the cartoonist Will Eisner, are the most prestigious honours in American comics. Best Graphic Album goes to the year’s best new book-length work, and its winners run from Watchmen and The Killing Joke through Blankets, American Born Chinese and Asterios Polyp to Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters. This list collects the winning books by year.

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