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Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*! HC (2008 Pantheon) comic books 2007-2009

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    Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@*! HC (2008 Pantheon) #1-1ST
    Tags: Anthology / Collection, Art Book
    Published Oct 2008 by Pantheon Books.

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    1st printing.

    By Art Spiegelman.

    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 fascimile of Breakdowns, the long-sought-after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s. Breakdowns established the mode of formally sophisticated comics that transformed the medium, and includes the prototype for Maus. Pulling all this together is an illustrated essay that looks 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.

    Hardcover, 10-in. x 14-in., 72 pages, PC/PB&W. Mature Readers

    Cover price $27.50.