{"product_id":"today-is-the-last-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life-9781606995570","title":"Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eBack 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiraculously combining a perfect memory for both emotional and physical detail with the sometimes painful lucidity two and half decades' distance have brought to her understanding of the events, Lust meticulously shows the who, where, when, and how (specifically, how an often penniless young girl can survive for months on the road) of a sometimes dangerous and sometimes exhilarating journey. Particularly haunting is her portrait of her fellow traveler, the gangly, promiscuous devil-may-care Edi who veers from being her spunky, funny best friend in the world to an out-of-control lunatic with no consideration for anything but her own whims and desires.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversally considered one of the very finest examples of the new breed of graphic novels coming from Europe, \u003cem\u003eToday is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e won the 2011 Angoulême \"Revelation\" prize, and Fantagraphics is proud to bring it to English speaking readers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThompson, Kim:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eKim Thompson\u003c\/strong\u003e (1956-2013)\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ewas 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.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLust, Ulli:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eUlli Lust\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Vienna in 1967, is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator. Her graphic memoir \u003cem\u003eToday is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e received international attention and won the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award and the Ignatz Award. Her subsequent works include \u003cem\u003eHow I Tried to Be a Good Person\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eVoices in the Dark\u003c\/em\u003e. She teaches drawing and comics at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.","brand":"Fantagraphics Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52057907429650,"sku":"9781606995570","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_cf2495d1-eaf9-4a3f-9a7d-746bd7363585.jpg?v=1772015708","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/today-is-the-last-day-of-the-rest-of-your-life-9781606995570","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}