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Breakdowns : portrait of the artist as a young %@[squiggle][star]! / Spiegelman.

Publication | Not Digitized | Library Call Number: PN6727.S6 A6 2008

Overview

Summary: The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son, in a volume that includes a facsimile of Breakdowns, the artist's comics from the 1970s.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Spiegelman, Art.
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, 2008
Locale: United States
Edition: First revised edition
Notes: Selection of Spiegelman's works.

Physical Details

Language: English
ISBN: 9780375423956
0375423958
Physical Description: 1 volume : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 37 cm

Keywords & Subjects

Subjects: Comics (Graphic works) Children of Holocaust survivors--United States--Biography--Comic books, strips, etc. Biographies. Spiegelman, Art--Comic books, strips, etc.

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