Failure

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Failure collects Karl Stevens's beautifully rendered humorous comic strips from the Boston Phoenix alternative weekly newspaper. His slice of life vignettes and surreal anthropomorphic experiments are revealing sketches of urban America and beyond. The follow up to his Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominated The Lodger.

Reviews

"Just the sort of thing you want lying around your house or apartment to distract you, several pages at a time, from the potentially hungover but definitely mind-numbing bullshit of another quotidian day." - Wayne Allan Brenner, The Austin Chronicle "I was surprised at how well Stevens captures the hyper-intellectual, alcohol-hazed existential nightmare of grad school." - Andrea Battleground, The Onion's A. V. Club "[The] style of Stevens's artwork is exquisitely rendered, with micro-fine pen lines that capture the slightest gradations of light and shade." - Douglas Wolk, The Washington Post

Author Bio

Karl Stevens: Karl Stevens is a graphic novelist and painter. His first book, Guilty, was published in 2004 with a grant from the Xeric Foundation. He is also the author of Whatever (2008), The Lodger (A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist, 2010), and Failure (2013). His comic strip, "Whatever," ran from 2005-2008 in the alternative weekly the Boston Phoenix. A collection of the strips was published in April 2008 by Alternative Comics. In May 2008 "Whatever" was replaced by a new comic, "Succe$$," illustrated by Stevens and written by Gustavo Turner. "Failure" was his final series for the Phoenix. As an illustrator, Stevens collaborated with Anthony Apesos on the book Anatomy for Artists: A New Approach Discovering, Learning, and Remembering the Body, released in October 2007 by North Light Books. His short stories have appeared in Volumes 1 and 3 of Blurred Vision, anthologies of "New Narrative Art" published by Blurred Books. Stevens is represented by the Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston.