Template:Short description Template:Infobox comics creator Ulli Lust (born 1967 in Vienna) is an Austrian cartoonist who lives and works in Berlin.[1]
Her graphic novel Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life was translated into English and published by Fantagraphics Books in 2013.[2] In 2013, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life won an Ignatz Award for best graphic novel,[3] the LA Times Book Award for Graphic Novels[4] and then in 2014 was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Reality-Based Work.[5] In 2013, Lust also published an adaptation of Marcel Beyer's 1995 novel, Flughunde, which presents a fictional account of Helga Goebbels, the daughter of German World War II minister of propaganda Joseph Goebbels.[6] This was published in English as Voices in the Dark.
Many of the books of Lust are published in German, Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian, Spanish and English. She holds a professorship at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Hannover, Germany, and holds lectures and workshops internationally and on digital channels.
Works
- Fashionvictims, Trendverächter: Bildkolumnen und Minireportagen aus Berlin, Suhrkamp Verlag, 2008.
- Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens, avant-verlag, 2009. (English translation, Today is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life, 2013, Fantagraphics Books)
- Voices in the Dark, New York Review Comics, 2017
- How I Tried to Be a Good Person, Fantagraphics Books, 2019