Through the Habitrails Life Before and After My Career in the Cubicles

by Nicholson, Jeff; Fraction, Matt; Bissette, Stephen R.

• ISBN13: 9780486802862
• ISBN10: 0486802868
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2016-03-15
• Publisher: Dover Publications

Summary

"A magnificent piece of work." ― Dave Sim
This collection of darkly humorous tales chronicles a nameless protagonist's struggle with a stultifying routine of office drudgery. The stories' Kafkaesque vignettes, portrayed in striking black-and-white drawings, offer eerie perspectives on the rigors of everyday life.
Author Jeff Nicholson is best known as the creator of Ultra Klutz, Lost Laughter, Father & Son, and Colonia. Praised by comics artist and publisher Stephen R. Bissette as "one of the seminal graphic novels of the 1990s," Through the Habitrails features semi-autobiographical vignettes that include "Futile Love," "The Doomed One," "The Infiltrator," "The Dark Spiral," "The Gerbil King," and the "Escape" trilogy, one part of which was a 1993 Eisner Award nominee.
Exclusive Bonus Material contains a new Epilogue, written and illustrated by the author, and a new Foreword by multiple Eisner Award winner Matt Fraction.

Author Biography

Eisner Award nominee Jeff Nicholson has been writing and drawing comic books since 1981. He received a Xeric Grant to complete his "Lost Laughter" series, and he was invited by DC Comics to write and illustrate an issue of "The Dreaming," a spinoff of Neil Gaiman's "Sandman" series.