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ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY . Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. It s the perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy s skin would grow back ...
This NYRC edition features a recreation of the original, pocket-size, slipcovered paperback, designed by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.
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ENJOY THE ECSTASY OF AGONY. Amy and Jordan are just like us: hoping for the best, even when things go from bad to worse. They are menaced by bears, beheaded by ghosts, and hunted by the cops, but still they struggle on, bickering and reconciling, scraping together the rent and trying to find a decent movie. It s the perfect solace for anxious modern minds, courtesy of one of the great innovators of American comics. Now if only Amy s skin would grow back ...

This NYRC edition features a recreation of the original, pocket-size, slipcovered paperback, designed by Art Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly.
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Mark Beyer, introduction by Colson Whitehead
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Mark Beyer s 'Amy and Jordan' was one of the great underground comic strips of the late 80s and early 90s the Candide-on-PCP misadventures of a seemingly accursed New York City couple.   Douglas Wolk, The New York Times Book Review 

"Almost childlike in its energy and lack of story logic, this is a charming explosion of grotesque comedic misfortune, exactly as the title promises ... Beyer s calamitous comedy has aged well, its geometric, densely patterned imagery recalling fine art as much as comics and still packing a punch among today s alternative cartoonists. Publishers Weekly, PW Picks

"Exquisitely, gleefully hopeless." The A. V. Club

"I couldn t get enough of their misery: I finished it in one sitting and flipped back to the beginning. The Paris Review Daily Blog

"Mark Beyer s Agony is a highlight of the 80s art comics movement ... Now available in a new edition as the first release of the New York Review Comics line, the abstract, absurd, and bleakly funny comic book returns, and it s just as oddly beautiful and relevant as ever. ... Throughout Agony, Beyer s artwork is odd, alienating, and remarkably effective. A self-taught artist whose work could easily be classified as outsider, raw, brut, or naïve art, Beyer strikes a balance between simple, even childlike figure-work supported by a very dynamic and complex design." Comics Alliance

"Gorgeously madcap and brutally inspiring.   Kirkus Reviews
 
Agony by Mark Beyer is an otherworldly pocket-sized jewel that s bound to be rediscovered. Blouin Artinfo
 
Beyer s work is universal at its heart ... One of the masters of the form. Publishers Weekly

Mark Beyer s are some of my favorite comics of all time, and surely the most perfectly realized vision of urban despair ever to hit the comic page. A must for any fan of bleakness and misery." Daniel Clowes

He s one of the flukiest geniuses in comics." L.A. Weekly
 
Exquisite poems of urban despair, dreamy and nightmarish. Chip Kidd
 
Perhaps the ultimate urban nightmare comic ... Mark Beyer [is] not only an extremely funny cartoonist, but one of the most progressive as well. Time
 
A childhood hell palpitating with adult neuroses. The Village Voice
 
Beyer s seminal strip is a terrifying New York of the mind. Dash Shaw
 
I hope Mark Beyer s work will find a place in the canon ... A treasure of the comics medium. The Millions
 
A complete and total original. Kaz

[A]n exemplar of [the] eighties  alternative' comics movement. ... Agony is a book filled with pain, misery, brutality, and hopelessness, but our unexpected laughter reminds us that we must carry on, regardless. Ivan Brunetti, The Paris Review Daily
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