Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

Softcover

ISBN 10: 160699557X ISBN 13: 9781606995570

Publisher: Fantagraphics, 2013

Lust, Ulli

About the Author:

Ulli Lust was born in 1967 in Vienna, Austria. She lives and works in Berlin, Germany.

Kim Thompson (1956-2013) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was the co-publisher of Fantagraphics Books and a champion of alternative and global comics. He lived in Seattle, WA, with his wife, Lynn, and their dog.

Review:

“A youthful-looking 40-something now living in Berlin, Ulli Lust claims to have learned ‘more on the streets than in the books’... varying the rhythm and framing of her panels, populating them with her subtly stylized characters, she provides an unvarnished vision of male-female relations in which violence, drugs and sex perform a diabolical dance. And even though there are flashes of humor, this relentless story remains focused on the frustration of men and the pain of women.”
- Le Monde

“A testament not only to how boldly Lust traveled, but also how far she's come as an artist.”
- PRI

“Lust takes readers inside her experiences, letting them feel how high hopes can devolve into raw survival.”
- Noel Murray, The A.V. Club

“...[A] sprawling, meditative graphic novel... [that] ripples with exuberance: [Lust] convincingly evokes her teenage feelings of fury and joy, and the small details of the way she experienced unfamiliar places for the first time.”
- Douglas Wolk, The New York Times

“There is a rejection of the organization of the world, from organized faith to organized crime. It is about the pursuit of nihilism as a route to integrity. Ulli Lust has the intelligence to look at her life and make a book of it.”
- Eddie Campbell, (From Hell, Alec)

“Great cartooning.”
- Kevin Huizenga, (Ganges, Gloriana)

“Told with great confidence and uncomfortable frankness across a sprawling 450 pages, it is a coming-of-age narrative that inevitably places itself in the tradition of German travel literature, perhaps unwittingly joining the company of such august figures as Goethe and Hesse.”
- Matthias Wivel, The Metabunker