ARGONAUT BOOKS

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning 'Maus' explores the comics form - and how it formed him! Tracing 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, this book also features a facsimile of 'Breakdowns', the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s. Reviews Close students and fans of Spiegelman's work view Breakdowns as a sort of Rosetta Stone that offers a master key to his intricate and varied visual idiom, revealing his...Read More