How I Tried to Be a Good Person

When Ulli Lust’s autobiographical comic Heute ist der letzte Tag vom Rest deines Lebens came out eight years ago, it was celebrated as a masterpiece and awarded numerous international prizes. In her sensational new comic, which picks up directly where its predecessor left off, she recounts the intense story of a ménage à trois, a utopian love affair that becomes possessive and violent, a story of a sexual obsession, gender conflict and self-liberation – her story.

Exposed, sensual, powerful – in this autobiographical comic, she recounts how as a young, enthusiastic anarchist, she tried to make her way as an artist in Vienna in the 1990s – and of her love for two men: the ‘perfect companion’ Georg, twenty years older, actor, and the ‘perfect lover’ Kimata, a Nigerian man-about-town. His lack of residence permit prompts the only logical solution: They have to get married. At the same time, Kimata’s jealousy increasingly leads to outbreaks of violence that threaten her life …

Ulli Lust is one of the most important contemporary German-language comic book artists and was recently awarded the »comics Oscar«, the Prix Révelation.

»An intimate and imaginative follow-up graphic memoir to Lust’s Ignatz award–winning punk travelogue.« Publishers Weekly

»Lust’s energetic, searching book ... reveals the power of desire – and the pain when jealousy rears its head.« The Guardian

»Lust’s bluntly honest account grants us a look at a courageous but alarming life.« Booklist

»A wonderful testament to the power of auto-bio graphic memoir.« Comics Grinder

»Lust’s examination of a pivotal and formative period of her life leaves no stone unturned and stands out for its absolute emotional honesty. Brave, confident, and visually literate in the extreme, How I Tried To Be A Good Person establishes its author as a true master of the medium.« Four Color Apocalypse

»With her new volume, Ulli Lust definitively takes her place at the international forefront of autobiographical comic writers.« Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

»The way images tell the story of an emancipation is captivating and technically perfect; there is nothing comparable on the German-speaking scene.« Thomas von Steinaecker, Süddeutsche Zeitung

»Extremely subjective, scrupulous and sexually charged, there is nothing quite like it on the German-speaking comic scene.« Frank Meyer, Deutschlandfunk Kultur

»An autobiographical comic that quite rightly bears this label and shows that sincere autobiographies often entail painful reflection.« Marie Schröer, Der Tagesspiegel

»Entertaining, thrilling, vivacious, palatable to read and somehow sad that it ends after 367 pages.« COMICKUNST