诺亚·范·西弗的这部漫画小说处女作讲述了二十多岁的亚伯拉罕·林肯在成为我们最敬爱的总统之前失去一切的故事。林肯是该州立法机构中冉冉升起的辉格党成员，他来到伊利诺斯州的斯普林菲尔德从事法律工作。与他所有的财产在他的腋下在两个鞍囊，他很快给了一个地方住一个玩弄女人的年轻单身汉谁成为他的朋友和亲密的知己。林肯开始了自己的生活，并开始与镇上的顶级律师和政治家建立友谊。他参加了优雅的舞会，遇到了一位来自肯塔基上流社会家庭的独立自主的年轻女子，在一段轻快的求爱之后，两人订婚了。但是，随着时间的推移和不确定性的蔓延，年轻的林肯被迫与抑郁的乌云作斗争，这是由一连串的失败和失败带来的，最终导致了威胁他的生命和理智的精神崩溃。这片抑郁的乌云林肯称之为" Hypo "密集的交叉交叉和对细节的关注使这部完全原创的小说集中在一起，讲述了一个人被一种无法抑制的欲望驱使着，他想靠自己的力量爬起来，克服所有障碍，成为他努力成为的人。在不知不觉中奠定了他日后成为美国最伟大总统之一的性格基础。
The debut graphic novel from Noah Van Sciver follows the twentysomething Abraham Lincoln as he loses everything, long before becoming our most beloved president. Lincoln is a rising Whig in the state's legislature as he arrives in Springfield, IL to practice law. With all of his possessions under his arms in two saddlebags, he is quickly given a place to stay by a womanizing young bachelor who becomes his friend and close confidant. Lincoln builds a life and begins friendships with the town's top lawyers and politicians. He attends elegant dances and meets an independent-minded young woman from a high-society Kentucky family, and after a brisk courtship, becomes engaged. But, as time passes and uncertainty creeps in, young Lincoln is forced to battle a dark cloud of depression brought on by a chain of defeats and failures culminating into a nervous breakdown that threatens his life and sanity. This cloud of dark depression Lincoln calls "The Hypo." Dense crosshatching and an attention to detail help bring together this completely original telling of a man driven by an irrepressible desire to pull himself up by his bootstraps, overcome all obstacles, and become the person he strives to be. All the while unknowingly laying the foundation of character he would use as one of America's greatest presidents.
