Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life

Ulli Lust

ISBN 10: 160699557X / ISBN 13: 9781606995570

Published by Fantagraphics Books Jun 2013, 2013

About this Item

Neuware -Back in 1984, a rebellious,17-year-old, punked-out Ulli Lust set out for a wild hitchhiking trip across Italy, from Naples through Verona and Rome and ending up in Sicily. Twenty-five years later, this talented Austrian cartoonist has looked back at that tumultuous summer and delivered a long, dense, sensitive, and minutely observed autobiographical masterpiece. 464 pp. Englisch.

Seller Inventory # 9781606995570

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life
• Publisher: Fantagraphics Books Jun 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160699557X
• ISBN 13: 9781606995570
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 233W x 171H x 43D millimeters 233 millimeters width by 171 millimeters height by 43 millimeters depth
• Weight: 953 grams

About this title

Synopsis

Lust, Ulli

About the Authors

Ulli Lust, born in Vienna in 1967, is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator. The German edition of this book, published in 2025, won that year’s €25,000 German Nonfiction Prize, awarded by Germany’s publishers and booksellers association―the first time a graphic-format book was awarded the prize.

Ulli Lust’s graphic memoir Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life garnered international acclaim and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Ignatz Award. Her subsequent books include How I Tried to Be a Good Person and Voices in the Dark, based on the novel by Marcel Beyer.

She teaches drawing and comics at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.

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.