BASQUIAT

Punk, jazz, graffiti, hip-hop: his work drew heavily on the cultural trappings of lower Manhattan, to which he fled-from Brooklyn-at the age of 15. This stunning graphic novel captures the dramatic life and exhilarating times of this archetypal New York artist, co vering everything from the SAMO graffiti project to his first solo show, from his relationship with Andy Warhol to the substance abu se that would cost him his life.