'The Ride Together'.
Upon graduating from Pratt Institute in 1981, Paul Karasik studied at the School of Visual Arts with cartoonists Will Eisner, Harvey Kurtzman and Art Spiegelman. He was Associate Editor of Spiegelman and Francoise Mouly's avant-garde international comics and graphics review, Raw. In addition he published his own magazine, Bad News.
In collaboration with artist David Mazzucchelli, he adapted Paul Auster's novel 'City of Glass' as a graphic novel. The graphic novel has been translated into French, Italian, German, Japanese, and Spanish, was named one of the best 100 comics of the century by Comics Journal. Karasik's cartoons have appeared in The New Yorker and Nickelodeon magazines. Together with his sister Judy Karasik, he created the autobiographical comic 'The Ride Together'. It is partly novel, partly comics, with art by Paul Karasik.
Karasik won an Eisner Award in 2008 for his anthology of comics by Fletcher Hanks, 'I Shall Destroy All The Civilized Planets'. A second volume of Hanks' work, 'You Shall Die By Your Own Evil Creation' (Fantagraphics, 2009), will - when combined with the first - comprise the Complete Fletcher Hanks. Karasik has written introductory material on Will Eisner, Milt Gross, E.O. Plauen, Suiho Tagawa, and Yuichi Yokoyama for various books and publications.
Karasik was also known as an early fan of Ernie Bushmiller in a time when many people still looked down upon it. Together with Mark Newgarden he wrote an entire essay about it, 'How to Read Nancy' (1988), which analyzes Bushmiller's talent for directly communicating with his audience.
Karasik also co-edited 'Masters of American Comics' (Yale University Press, 2005), a catalogue book to an exhibition in the Hammer Museum and Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles between 20 November 2005 and 12 March 2006. This exhibition later travelled to the Milwaukee Art Museum in Wisconsin, between 27 April and 13 August 2006, and the Jewish Museum and Newark Museum in New York, from 15 September 2006 until 28 January 2007.
'Whatever Happened to Fletcher Hanks?'.