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

English

ISBN: 0375423958

EAN: 9780375423956

Category: Comics & Graphic Novels / Nonfiction

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Release Date: 10/07/2008

Synopsis: The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winningMausexplores the comics form...and how it formed him! This book opens withPortrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. It traces the artists 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 ofBreakdowns, the long-sought after collection of the artists comics of the 1970s, teh book that triggers these memories.Breakdownsestablished the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype ofMaus, 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,Breakdownsalters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

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

Illustrated: Yes

Format: Hardcover

Height: 0.6 inches

Width: 10.3 inches

Length: 14.3 inches

Weight: 33.02 oz

Pages: 72