Synopses & Reviews
Praised by comic book legend Dave Sim as "a magnificent piece of work," this collection of darkly humorous tales chronicles a nameless protagonist's struggle with a stultifying routine of office drudgery. Kafkaesque vignettes, portrayed in striking black-and-white drawings, offer eerie perspectives on the rigors of everyday life. This edition includes a chilling new illustrated Epilogue by the author and a new Foreword by multiple Eisner Award winner Matt Fraction. Contains adult material.
Synopsis
Praised by comics artist and publisher Stephen R. Bissette as "one of the seminal graphic novels of the 1990s," this collection of darkly humorous tales offers eerie perspectives on the rigors of everyday life. New illustrated Epilogue by the author. Contains adult material.
Synopsis
"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 containsa newEpilogue, written and illustrated by the author, and a newForeword by multiple Eisner Award winner Matt Fraction."
About the Author
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.