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David Mazzucchelli Wins First LA Times Book Prize For Asterios Polyp

It's a long time since Batman: Year One. But David Mazzucchelli's decision to leave what was laughingly called "mainstream comics" in the eighties, to create the likes of Rubber Blanket and City Of Glass and then to work as a design teacher. But this change of career has culminated in the publication of Asterios Polyp.

Not only has this graphic novel about the life of a "paper architect", whose work is judged on the designs rather than any eventual building, received acclaim within the comics industry, nominated for four Eisners, but last night won the first First LA Times Book Prize in the graphic novel category. This is a reflection of the very metatextual storytelling within the book, a perfect merging of words and pictures to reflect far more than the story of an architect undergoing a life change to become a car mechanic, and reflecting the very design background of the protagonist, creating its own Greek tragedy.

Dave Eggers had already been given the Innovator's Award, for his body of work which includes comic books. Eggers also picked up the Current Interest Prize for his new novel Zeitoun.

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