false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1215283894m/2864204.jpg 2864204 8 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. 2890345 1977 Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! total:130|5:32|4:51|3:32|2:12|1:3| 130 487 225 30 4 0 false false Wed Nov 18 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 06:47:32 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 07:06:38 -0800 2009 Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, the reader is actually presented with a fusion of two separate books - his infamous $8.95 foray into underground co...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Mar 18 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Mar 13 22:22:21 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 21:27:31 -0700 2009
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