Yearbooks

Nicholas Breutzman's Yearbooks takes the reader on a trip through the nightmares of high school, both real and imagined. Chilling...[Yearbooks] raises an interesting issue vis-a-vis the relationship between an artist and their responsibilities as a moral agent in the world. Can art be evil if it's made by predators, or is this entirely in the eye of the beholder? -- The Comics Journal Strange, gross, and lovely, Yearbooks is just connected enough to real high school memories to really freak you out... -- Jessica Abel, Best American Comics series editor Nic Breutzman's comics are often beguiling, sometimes disorienting, and always formally inventive. Yearbooks is a quick sucker punch that will leave you feeling uneasy but eager for more. -- Matt Madden, Best American Comics series editor In Nicholas Breutzman's debut effort Yearbooks, we encounter nightmarish scenes of a literal and psychological nature as we plumb the depths of the high school experience. Yearbooks evokes the rubbery realism of Daniel Clowes' Eightball, the narrative dread not unlike a Todd Solondz film, and the vivid colors commonly found in the work of Lauren Weinstein. Nic Breutzman is a Minnesotan native by way of New York who has had a number of comics published both through 2dcloud as well as in collaboration with other artists, such as Sharon Lintz (Pornhounds 2) and a collection of SVA grads (Jon Vermilyea, Eamon Espey, Raymond Sohn, et al) for the anthology Critical Citadel. He placed at #24 on The Comics Journal's Top 50 comics of 2009 for his graphic Novella Yearbooks, has been listed as a notable in multiple editions of Best American Comics for work in Motherlover and Yearbooks, and his work with Sharon Lintz on Pornhounds 2 secured him a place on numerous best of 2011 lists. He currently works as a Designer at the Center for Innovation at the Mayo Clinic.