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Book SynopsisContributions by Georgiana Banita, Colin Beineke, Harriet Earle, Ariela Freedman, Liza Futerman, Shawn Gilmore, Sarah Hamblin, Cara Koehler, Lee Konstantinou, Patrick Lawrence, Philip Smith, and Kent Worcester
A carefully curated, wide-ranging edited volume tracing Art Spiegelman''s exceptional trajectory from underground rebellion to mainstream success,
Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman reveals his key role in the rise of comics as an art form and of the cartoonist as artist. The collection grapples with Spiegelman''s astonishing versatility, from his irreverent underground strips, influential avant-garde magazine
RAW, the expressionist style of the comics classic
Maus, the illustrations to the Jazz Age poem The Wild Party, and his response to the September 11 terrorist attacks to his iconic cover art for the
New Yorker, his children''s books, and various cross-media collaborations.
The twelve chapters cut across Spiegelman''s career
