Summary
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form … and how it formed him!
In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword
This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&!*, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artist’s evolution from a MAD-comics obsessed boy in Rego Park, Queens, to a neurotic adult examining the effect of his parents’ memories of Aus…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241623350 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241623359 |
| Author: | Art Spiegelman |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Viking |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 80 |
| Release Date: | 4 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 499g |
| Dimensions: | 308mm x 227mm x 7mm |
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Critics Review
Close students and fans of Spiegelman’s work view Breakdowns as a sort of Rosetta Stone that offers a master key to his intricate and varied visual idiom, revealing his enormous and often overlooked range as an artist * New York Times *
About The Author
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman has been a staff artist and contributing editor at the New Yorker, as well as the cofounder/coeditor of RAW, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. In addition to Maus - which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and twice nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award - he is the author of Breakdowns and In the Shadow of No Towers. In September 2022, the National Book Foundation announced that he would receive the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and a cat named Voodoo.
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