Synopses & Reviews
After losing his girlfriend and hip Boston apartment, Karl Stevens moves into a spare room in his painting professorand#8217;s home, where his bohemian adventures in sex and boozing converge with the rituals of life with a family and an unruly beagle named Cookie. In a series of humorous, poignant, and gorgeously rendered stories, The Lodger chronicles a tumultuous year in the life of the author as he grows as an artist and a man. Combining comic strips originally published in The Phoenix, Bostonand#8217;s leading alternative weekly, with exquisite watercolors and oil paintings, The Lodger follows the Xeric-winning and Ignatz-nominated artist's Guilty and Whatever as a penetrating and visually stunning depiction of love, loss, and the moving minutiae of everyday life. A Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist.
Review
and#147;Warm and heartfelt despite itself, The Lodger is an experimental comic about a less-than-experimental man.and#8221; andmdash; Publishers Weekly
Synopsis
A series of humorous, poignant, and gorgeously rendered stories chronicling a tumultuous year in the life of the author.
About the Author
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, and#147;Whatever,and#8221; 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 and#147;Whateverand#8221; was replaced by a new comic, and#147;Succe$$,and#8221; illustrated by Stevens and written by Gustavo Turner. and#147;Failureand#8221; 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 and#147;New Narrative Artand#8221; published by Blurred Books. Stevens is represented by the Carroll and Sons Gallery in Boston.