Glassbyen

David Mazzucchelli’s Glassbyen (2011–present, Minuskel Forlag) adapts Paul Auster’s novel City of Glass into a stark, minimalist graphic novel. Mazzucchelli both writes and illustrates, collaborating with Paul Karasik to translate the story’s metafictional detective mystery into a visual language of grids, shadows, and sparse dialogue. A single-issue series, it stands as a landmark of literary comics, demonstrating how the medium can distill a dense, philosophical text into a haunting, essential experience.