But Noah Van Sciver did, and the result is his new graphic novel, Joseph Smith. I cannot tell it: I shall never undertake it. The Hypo, Van Sciver's first full length graphic novel, earned positive critical praise, and made it onto several "best-of" lists for 2012, including MTV Geek (#3), Boing Boing (tied #3), Publisher's Weekly Critic's Poll (#4), and was ranked as one of the Best Graphic Novels of 2012 by the Library Journal. Joseph Smith once famously said, No man knows my history. In October 2012, Fantagraphics Books published The Hypo: The Melancholic Young Lincoln, a narrative biography of Abraham Lincoln that spans the years 1837-1842. Since December 2011, Van Sciver's work has appeared in Mad magazine, and has been featured in The Comics Journal, Mome, and Mineshaft. He completed the run in 2015, when he left for the Center for Cartoon Studies. In 2007 he launched the weekly strip 4 Questions in Denver's alternative weekly, Westword. His short story "Abby's Road," which originally appeared in Blammo #6, was selected for the Best American Comics 2012 anthology. To date he has put out ten and a half issues of Blammo. After four issues, he handed publishing duties over to Kilgore Books & Comics, an independent comic and bookshop in Denver. Van Sciver began producing his one-person anthology Blammo in 2006, originally just leaving them in stacks at coffee shops in the Denver area.
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