‘Epileptic’: Disorder in the House, by Rick Moody.

It’s not uncommon now for readers of literature to admire Chris Ware or Julie Doucet or Joe Sacco or Joe Matt with a partisan vigor formerly reserved for renegades like Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan. Among the reasons for this popularity is that comics are currently better at the sociology of the intimate gesture than literary fiction is.

A big, fat, Sunday-Times wet kiss from Moody to the Fantaboys in the little grey shed on Lake City. MMWAH!

Or is it? The book is translated by Kim T. of Fantagraphics, but published by Pantheon.

Aha! The indispensible Egon has the scoop (January, 2004):

Fantagraphics will not co-publish (with L’Association) David B.’s “Epileptic” Vol. 2 as originally planned, Kim Thompson confirms in a post to the Comics Journal’s message board. “The complete EPILEPTIC will be released all in one volume by Pantheon in January 2005,” says Thompson. The book will include the totality of “Epileptic” Vol. 1 and what would have been “Epileptic” Vol. 2. “It’ll actually be priced about the same as a L’Association-published EPILEPTIC VOLUME 2 would have been, so no one’s out any money… the art will be shrunk a bit to make for a smaller, more novel-sized book. (Which will also make it less unwieldy.)”