Nick Drnaso captures modern anxieties with quiet brilliance in his acclaimed graphic novels
The American graphic novelist spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about distilling modern anxieties into brilliant graphic novels.
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The American graphic novelist spoke to Eleanor Wachtel about distilling modern anxieties into brilliant graphic novels.
Nick Drnaso's Acting Class is a story of self-discovery and friendship that descends into something altogether darker and more disturbing
FOR FIFTEEN YEARS, cartoonist Nick Drnaso has been drawing chromatically flat, eerily domestic graphic novels. Following his debut publication Beverly (2016), a dark collection of interconnected vignettes, Drnaso’s full-length thriller Sabrina (2018) became the first graphic novel to be nominated for a Man Booker Prize. With Acting Class, out today with Drawn & Quarterly, he presents an assortment of strangers who voluntarily disrupt their daily monotony to meet with a mysteriously merit-less acting instructor. Below, the Chicago-based Drnaso reveals his latest story’s origins, cons...
The author of Sabrina brings us a discomfiting picture of charlatanism in action