Box Office Poison | |
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Antarctic Press Top Shelf Productions |
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Created by | Alex Robinson |
Box Office Poison is a series of comic books (originally published by Antarctic Press) by Alex Robinson. It was published in collected form by Top Shelf Productions in 2001. The story concerns the life and trials of a group of young people in New York City.
Box Office Poison has been translated into Spanish, titled Malas Ventas; Portuguese, titled Fracasso de Publico; French, titled De mal en pis, and Greek. It won the Prix du premier album (Prize for First Comic Book) at the 2005 Angoulême International Comics Festival.
The A.V. Club named it one of the best comics of the decade.
Top 100 Graphic Novels named it as the 84th best comic ever made.
The collected Box Office Poison is over 600 pages long. Robinson has stated that serializing such a long story in black-and-white form was inspired by the comic Cerebus by Dave Sim.
Box Office Poison features a wide array of major, supporting, and minor characters from many walks of life.
The 608 page volume of the series was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work in 2002, and an Eisner Award, Ignatz Award and a Firecracker Award in 2001 and 2002. The French version of Box Office Poison, called De Mal En Pis, won the Prix Du Premier Album at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2005.