Breakdowns By Art Spiegelman

NPR's Scott Simon talks to graphic artist Art Spiegelman about the re-issue of his book "Breakdowns," a collection of his early comics. Art Spiegelman on the re-issue of his book 'Breakdowns' SCOTT ...

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"Breakdowns" has been published before, almost 45 years ago. It's been republished a couple of times and now once again. It is Art Spiegelman's large-format graphic album of experimental comics about ...

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Seattle Times: Art Spiegelman talks career, banning books and rerelease of ‘Breakdowns’

Noun breakdown (countable and uncountable, plural breakdowns) (countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.

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Art Spiegelman- the Michael Jordan of literary comics– headlines this year’s book fair. The artist who created the hugely popular Holocaust comic tome Maus is here touting two new works. The first is ...

Author and cartoonist Art Spiegelman is familiar with the hysteria surrounding certain library books. In today's episode, he tells NPR's Scott Simon about how comic book burnings during his childhood ...

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Art Spiegelman has been an artist and cartoonist since he was 12, when he began imitating his favorite comics and zines. By the time he was a teenager, he was a paid contributor to several outlets ...

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How Maus changed the way we think about comics. Illustration from Art Spiegelman’s Maus. When I was a junior in college, I studied abroad for a semester in Rome. I only managed to make one Italian ...

Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&! is the subtitle of this new book, and we talk about the kind of young %@&! Art Spiegelman was: a depressive %@&*!, paranoid, with a strong formalist streak and ...