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Known chiefly for his collaborations with frank miller on seminal batman and daredevil stories, and with paul karasik on an adaptation of paul austers novel, city of glass he began publishing his own stories in 1991 in his anthology magazine, rubber blanket. Buy a cheap copy of asterios polyp book by david mazzucchelli. Annotations for asterios polyp by david mazzucchelli. Asterios polyp is an architect, drawn in sleek geometric form by mazzucchelli.
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