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Breakdowns

Art Spiegelman
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      The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him! 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 Auschwitz on his own son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective." Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Art Spiegelman EAN: 9780241463925 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 911 g HEIGHT: 362 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-09-03 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Anthologies, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Humorous WIDTH: 261 cm SPINE:

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      c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Anthologies: general, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical

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      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.
      The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him! 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 Auschwitz on his own son. The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype of Maus, cubist experiments, an essay on humor, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story "Ace Hole-Midget Detective." Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the sixties as the artist pushes sixty, and explains the obsessions that brought these works into being. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Art Spiegelman EAN: 9780241463925 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 911 g HEIGHT: 362 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-09-03 CITY: GENRE: COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Anthologies, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Literary, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / Biography & Memoir, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Nonfiction / History, COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS / Humorous WIDTH: 261 cm SPINE:

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      c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Autobiography: arts and entertainment, Memoirs, Anthologies: general, Graphic novels, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Humorous, Graphic novel / Comic book / Manga: Historical

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      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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