Thousands upon thousands of books have been written about Immanuel Kant since his death. None, let’s be clear, have been quite like what we have here. In Party Fun with Kant, Nicolas Mahler tells the story of Kant—and his fellow serious-minded figures from the history of philosophy—with a comic edge. With his witty visual style and clever wordplay, he delves into their lives and emerges with hitherto unknown scenes that show them in a new (and far less serious) light. We go to parties with Kant, visit an art exhibition with Hegel, shop at the supermarket with Nietzsche, and go to the cinema with Deleuze, and celebrate the dream wedding with de Beauvoir. In each case, we come away knowing more about the life, thoughts, and feelings of the philosopher—getting to know them as people rather than as stony-faced figures long since robbed of any existence beyond their ideas. The result is pure fun, but with plenty of insight, too.

Party Fun with Kant (The German List)

Literature & Fiction

Mahler, Nicolas

Literary

Seagull Books

A twist on the classic tale of Alice in Wonderland told through Nicolas Mahler’s distinctive graphic novel style.\nAlice is back in Wonderland. Here she meets the White Rabbit, who leads her down into his rabbit hole in search of an illustrated edition of H. C. Artmann’s Frankenstein in Sussex. Over the course of the novel, Alice repeatedly runs into the Rabbit, who quotes freely from other literary works by the likes of Herman Melville and E. M. Cioran.\nUnlike in Lewis Carroll’s classic, Alice is not traveling the Wonderland we know. Rather, in Nicolas Mahler’s whimsical graphic novel retelling, she is in a house deep beneath the ground. On subsequent floors, she encounters the famous creations of Lewis Carroll: the Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar, the Cheshire Cat, the Mock Turtle, and many others. One after the other, these creatures address the terrors of childhood and youth. It is only when Alice reaches the ground floor of the house that we arrive at the inevitable climax: face to face with Frankenstein’s Monster.

Alice in Sussex: Mahler after Lewis Carroll & H. C. Artmann (The German List)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

A twist on the Irish literary classic Ulysses, told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. &nbsp; Dublin, 16 June 1904: through a day in the life of the advertising agent Leopold Bloom and the sensations of the ordinary, James Joyce created a maximal book from a minimum of matter. Ulysses, the most important novel of modernity, is a defining book of the twentieth century. Joyce's creation--also spectacularly innovative in form--inspired Nicolas Mahler to attempt a literary retelling that is not a mere illustration or adaption of the novel but an independent and equally as inventive work. Using comics, Mahler transforms the various literary techniques of the original. He assembles his images with humorous and philosophical verve, quoting and rambling along in the spirit of Joyce. &nbsp; With this graphic interpretation of the modern classic, which also constitutes a homage to the golden era of the newspaper comic strip, Ulysses can be newly discovered in a delightfully unexpected form.

Ulysses: Mahler after Joyce (The German List)

A twist on the French literary classic In Search of Lost Time&nbsp;told through Nicolas Mahler's distinctive graphic novel style. &nbsp; Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time is one of the most important works of French literature--if not the most important. Reading it can be life-changing. Nicolas Mahler's comic is not a retelling of this classic, nor a shortened version of Proust's monumental work. Rather, it is a surprisingly funny graphic novel, comically disrespectful of the celebrated work yet completely permeated by Proustian spirit. Complemented by his clear and sparse illustrations, Mahler's minimal nature of text use is easy on the eye, even for those uninitiated into graphic novels. For long-time fans of graphic novels, it is a perfect entry into a beloved literary classic. &nbsp; A compact picture stream through time and space, Mahler's In Search of Lost Time is a brilliantly complex house of mirrors replete with Proustian motives and perceptions.

In Search of Lost Time: Mahler after Proust (The German List)

Created by Korporate Comics in a flash of money-grubbing cynicism appalling even by their standards, Angelman’s powers (which include empathy and the ability to be a good listener) prove less than adequate to deal with the sinister threat of the insane plastic-surgeon villain Gender Bender — or for that matter with the fickleness of fashion, the rapacious super-heroine Lady Dentata, the increasingly desperate re-boot attempts by Korporate Comics, his oddly twin-like wife, a disastrously bad movie adaptation that single-handedly brings the vogue for super-hero movies to a screeching halt... all delineated in Austrian cartoonist Nicolas Mahler’s trademarked ultra-minimalism (albeit this time in spectacular color), and with his drier-than-dry wit.

Angelman: Fallen Angel

Thompson, Kim

Fantagraphics Books

Completely Kafka: A Comic Biography

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Pushkin Press

<ul><li>Silent and sophisticated, whimsical and funny, short comics involving mummies, vampires, the wolfman, and Frankenstein. Austrian cartoonist Nicholas Mahler is famous for his silent and sophisticated comics. His short stories are intriguing, humorous and incredibly illustrated in a whimsical, yet weighted, sketchy style. Characters in this volume include the classic archetypes: mummy, vampire, wolfman, Frankenstein, et al. This first American compilation will be sure to create an instant fan base his for work.</li></ul>

Van Helsings Night Off

Comic Strips

Top Shelf Productions

<ul><li>From the cartoonist of Van Helsing's Night Off, comes another quirky introspective. Lone Racer is the story of a down-and-out racecar driver whose days of success are long gone. After a misguided attempt at bank robbery, where he is supposed to drive the getaway car, Lone Racer decides that the days of going downhill are over. Will Lone Racer get back on track? </li></ul>

Lone Racer

Les Souffrances du jeune Frankenstein

AMPOULE

DESIR

PASTEQUE

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