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ART SPIEGELMAN
presents
Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!
$30 tickets on sale now. (Tickets redeemable for one copy of Breakdowns.) Harvard Book Store is honored and delighted to welcome the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, ART SPIEGELMAN, for a presentation of his newest work, Breakdowns: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! Signing Guidelines: Mr. Spiegelman will sign copies of Breakdowns and Jack and the Box ONLY following the talk, up to a total of 4 copies altogether. In Breakdowns, Spiegelman explores the comics form...and how it formed him. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir. The book opens with Portrait of the Artist as a Young #@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped him. 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.
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Art Spiegelman is cofounder/editor of Raw, the acclaimed magazine of avant-garde comics and graphics. From 1992 to 2002, he was a staff artist and writer for The New Yorker, which published his powerful black-on-black 9/11 cover a few days after the event. His drawings and prints have been exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world. Maus received the Pulitzer Prize and was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Spiegelman lives in New York City with his wife, Françoise Mouly, and their two children.
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