The Outsider

Available from Fantagraphics when we last checked. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A secret history of comics, unearthed within the moving biography of legendary comic artist Bernard Krigstein. Take a walk with The Outsider . Comics in the 1950s is a nowhere medium for journeymen and artistically frustrated illustrators. Certainly that's what Bernie Krigstein —a comics artist and out-of-step painter slumming in the sleazy comics industry to make ends meet— thinks. What starts as an escape attempt from the rut of cranking out comics takes successive leaps into tales of labor or