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How I Tried to Be a Good Person

Ulli Lust

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Lust's follow-up to her first internationally lauded graphic memoir, How I Tried to Be a Good Person, picks up directly where its predecessor left off. Revealing and powerful, Lust recounts her life as a young, enthusiastic anarchist making her way in Vienna in the 1990s - and of her love for two men: the perfect companion Georg, an actor twenty years her elder, and the perfect lover, Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. As her relationships with the two men evolve, jealousy increasingly mounts and leads to emotional and violent outbreaks that threaten her life.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Fantagraphics Books
  • Publish Date: Jul 16th, 2019
  • Pages: 368
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 9.40in - 6.70in - 1.10in - 2.00lb
  • EAN: 9781683962038
  • Categories: • Literary• Artists, Architects, Photographers• Special Interest - Literary

About the Author

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

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Publisher of the World's Greatest Cartoonists Since 1976.

Love and Rockets Vol. IV #12 by @BetomessGilbert and @xaimeh, Metax by @antoine_cosse_1, Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life and How I Tried to Be a Good Person, both by Ulli Lust, and Below Ambition by @s_k_hanselmann—phew! Thanks, @ComicsJournal!

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5 years

Comics podcast hosted by Joshua Malbin, Alexander Rothman, & Joe Wessely. Reviews, interviews, meaningful pauses.

Episode 96 discusses Good Talk by @mirajacob (from @oneworldlit), How I Tried to Be a Good Person by Ulli Lust and O Josephine! by Jason (both from @fantagraphics) and Pope Hats #6 by Hartley Lin (from @adhousebooks) https://t.co/XkLGbPMa7B

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Joe John Art
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3 years

Hello, I am a very professional and confident artist who knows what he is doing.

Feeling grateful that I never knew the @fantagraphics shop existed when I lived in Seattle (because I would have spent all my money there). Popped in yesterday and picked up a signed copy of “How I Tried To Be A Good Person” by Ulli Lust. https://t.co/GXoVkMjqEZ

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Praise for this book

An intimate and imaginative follow-up graphic memoir to Lust's Ignatz award-winning punk travelogue.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Lust's energetic, searching book ... reveals the power of desire -- and the pain when jealousy rears its head.-- "The Guardian"
Lust's bluntly honest account grants us a look at a courageous but alarming life.-- "Booklist"
A wonderful testament to the power of auto-bio graphic memoir.-- "Comics Grinder"
Lust's examination of a pivotal and formative period of her life leaves no stone unturned and stands out for its absolute emotional honesty. Brave, confident, and visually literate in the extreme, How I Tried establishes its author as a true master of the medium.-- "Four Color Apocalypse"
Lust is determined to live her truth, even occasionally putting herself in physical danger. At other times, she's left contemplating the line between self-actualization and selfishness. Lust relates all this in an uncompromisingly frank manner, with anthropological detail. It's a rich narrative.-- "The Comics Journal"
The very definition of a warts and all memoir, this is a complex and meaty read.-- "Irish Examiner"

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