Do you already know Mrs. Goldgruber? She is an administrative employee at the Vienna tax office, and Nicolas Mahler must convince her that what he does is more "art" than "advertising graphics." Observations on administrative matters, experiences as a temporary employee at a video store, anecdotes, and overheard conversations from the art and comic scene - Nicolas Mahler always extracts the absurd from all of this and presents it with dry, detached humor. He constantly has to justify his work as a comic artist, whether at customs or in academic circles. The Goldgruber Chronicles are the collected stories from the three successful books Art Theory vs. Mrs. Goldgruber, The Demands of Modernity, and Pornography and Suicide. The episodes have been expanded with an afterword for this anthology.