Mister O???

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from "The Pipeline" at CBR:
Darwyn Cooke called MISTER O the best graphic novel of the year when he mentioned it at a Philadelphia Wizard World convention a couple of years ago. It's Lewis Trondheim's wordless gag book, each page being a 60-panel adventure of the title character trying to make his way across a chasm. He fails. Repeatedly.

Now there's a sequel in MISTER I, in which the title character -- shaped as a different vowel this time -- goes in search of food. It's wordless, again, so there should be no problem translating it for the American market. Let's hope NBM does so soon.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nbmpub.com/humor/trondheim/mistero/pre1.html

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, it's brilliant.

Another one here:

http://www.pastis.org/lewis/Imagesalbums/Mistero2.jpg

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh it's a beard.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

wait a minute --- are you guys saying Lewis Trondheim and L'Association havent made it across the atlantic yet?

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Was it an Infinite Crisis or House of M tie-in?

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

:'(

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on the right side of the Atlantic and it's the first time I've heard of it.

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

weird. my local comic store has four sections: manga, goscinny, us imports, trondheim

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

goscinny???

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

fantagraphics have translated quite a lot of trondheim comics

― Ward Fowler (Ward Fowler), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

you know, for kids. xpost

― Yawn (Wintermute), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

By 'right side' I didn't mean 'correct side', by the way (although I do secretly think that).

― chap who would dare to be a stone cold thug (chap), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mister O is seriously one of the funniest things I've ever read--one of the few times I can remember actually falling out of my chair from laughing so hard. Like a Road Runner cartoon as written by Samuel Beckett, or more accurately like a Samuel Beckett play as adapted by Chuck Jones. I'm iffy on a lot of Trondheim's stuff (just read my first "Dungeon" book the other day and didn't think much of it), but I am super-psyched to see that Mister I exists.

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

wow, it looks really brilliant. so much storytelling packed in there.

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 28 March 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

If you're interested--every single page of Mr O is just like that! Just as dense, comprehensible, cute, and funny. I have to say that It's the only indie-cred, highly formalistic comic I can give to my sister and have her instantly like it.

― kenchen, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

No relation to Mister A, it seems.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mister O is fantastic. I can't wait for Mister I.

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 29 March 2006 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, it is s brilliant book. I felt pretty sorry for him by the end. Poor O.

― Chuck_Tatum (Chuck_Tatum), Wednesday, 29 March 2006 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

three years pass...

JUST discovered and am torrenting Kaput and Zosky cartoon!

― pending echeques (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 3 June 2009 18:45 (sixteen years ago)

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