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Breakdowns

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

Art Spiegelman

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Viking
04 April 2023
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form... and how it formed him!

Now 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 Auschwitz on his own son.

The second part presents a facsimile of Breakdowns, the 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 humour, and the definitive genre-twisting pulp story Ace Hole - Midget Detective.

Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks back at the 1960s as the artist himself pushes 60, 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.

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Imprint:   Viking
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 308mm,  Width: 226mm,  Spine: 10mm
Weight:   498g
ISBN:   9780241623350
ISBN 10:   0241623359
Pages:   80
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

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 January 2011, Art Spiegelman was awarded Le Grand Prix at the Angoulame International Comics Festival. From 2012 through 2014 a museum retrospective of his work, called Co-Mix, travelled to the Pompidou Center in Paris, the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, Germany, the Jewish Museum in New York, the Vancouver Art Gallery and the Art Gallery of Ontario. His most recent book is Si Lewen's Parade- An Artist's Oddyssey (2016). He lives in New York City with his wife, Fran oise Mouly, and a cat named Voodoo.

Reviews for Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

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 *


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