Michael Chabon's The Escapists

Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, this story of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams, small cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero—The Escapist—is Brian K. Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium. The lives of these creators Max, Denny, and Case—latter day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay—are brilliantly woven together with the world of their creations.


Discovering his late father's decades-spanning...