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Combined for the first time here are Maus I: A Survivor's Tale and Maus II - the complete story of Vladek Spiegelman and his wife, living and surviving in Hitler's Europe. By addressing the horror of the Holocaust through cartoons, the author captures the everyday reality of fear and is able to explore the guilt, relief and extraordinary sensation of survival - and how the children of survivors are in their own way affected by the trials of their parents. A contemporary classic of immeasurable significance.
A SPECIAL-EDITION BOXSET CREATED TO CELEBRATE THE PULITZER-PRIZE
WINNING GRAPHIC NOVEL'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY 'The first masterpiece in
comic book history' The New Yorker 'The most affecting and
successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust' Wall Street
Journal A brutally moving work of art -- widely hailed as the
greatest graphic novel ever written -- MAUS recounts the chilling
experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews
drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a
haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his
tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing
retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an
unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy
of trauma. This paperback box set includes MAUS in its original
two-volume format, re-released with an exclusive sixteen-page
booklet designed by the artist himself.
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'A brutally moving work of art' Boston Globe 'No summary can do
justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill' Adam Gopnik 'Like all
great stories, it tells us more about ourselves than we could ever
suspect' Philip Pullman 'A capital-G Genius' Michael Chabon
Volumes one and two of the Pulitzer Prize-winning tale of a mouse's
experiences in Nazi-occupied Europe and in German concentration
camps are housed in a sturdy box. Reprint.
A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics,
authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and
innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece
Maus 'The most affecting and successful narrative ever done about
the Holocaust' Wall Street Journal
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It is hard to overstate Art Spiegelman's effect on postwar American
culture. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author is one of our most
influential contemporary artists, and his masterpiece Maus has
shaped the fields of literature, history, and art. Collecting
responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting
status, Maus Now is a new collection of essays that sees writers
such as Philip Pullman, Robert Storr, Ruth Franklin, and others
approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints
and traditions. Offering translations of important French, Hebrew,
and German essays on Maus for the first time, this collection
edited by American literary scholar Hillary Chute - an expert on
comics and graphic narratives - assembles the world's best writing
on this classic work of graphic testimony.
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'The first masterpiece in comic book history' The New Yorker on
Maus 'No summary can do justice to Spiegelman's narrative skill'
Adam Gopnik on Maus 'Like all great stories, it tells us more about
ourselves than we could ever suspect' Philip Pullman on Maus
Paul Auster's signature work, "The New York Trilogy," consists of
three interlocking novels: "City of Glass," "Ghosts," and "The
Locked Room" - haunting and mysterious tales that move at the
breathless pace of a thriller."City of Glass" - As a result of a
strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of
detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than
any he might hace written"Ghosts"Blue, a student of Brown, has been
hired to spy on Black. From a window of a rented house on Orange
street, Blue stalks his subject, who is staring out of "his"
window. "The Locked Room" - Fanshawe has disappeared, leaving
behind his wife and baby and a cache of novels, plays, and poems.
What happened? Features an introduction from Luc Sante and
incredible cover illustrations by Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic
artist Art Spiegelman, creator of "Maus "and "In the Shadow of No
Towers".
On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first
publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed
as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the
Holocaust" ("Wall Street Journal") and "the first masterpiece in
comic book history" ("The New Yorker").
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"The Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" tells the story of Vladek
Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a
cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. "Maus"
approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the
cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any
lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer
to the bleak heart of the Holocaust" ("The New York Times").
"Maus "is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story
of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured
relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt
brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments
and unhappy visits. This astonishing retelling of our century's
grisliest news is a story of survival, not only of Vladek but of
the children who survive even the survivors. "Maus "studies the
bloody pawprints of history and tracks its meaning for all of us.
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Garbage Pail Kids (Hardcover)
Topps Company; Introduction by Art Spiegelman
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Garbage Pail kids, a series of stickers produced by Topps in 1985
were designed to parody overly saccharine Cabbage Patch Kids. Each
sticker card features a Garbage Pail Kid character depicted in a
grotesque and biting image, christened with a humourous character
name involving wordplay. The series was the creation of Pulizer
Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman, who in collaboration with
other successful artists, turned the cads into a pop-culture
phenomenon. Garbage Pail Kids will feature all 206 rare and
hard-to-find stickers from Series 1 through 5, originally release
in 1985 and 1 986 and contains an introduction by Spiegelman.
Garbage Pail Kids includes a limited edition set of four rare and
unreleased stickers, is packaged in a wax-coated jacket and is
guaranteed to appeal to die-hard collectors as well as a new
generation of fans.
A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
MAUS was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from prewar Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
***NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER***
Visually and emotionally rich, "MetaMaus" is as groundbreaking as
the masterpiece whose creation it reveals.
In the pages of "MetaMaus," Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer
prize-winning "Maus," the modern classic that has altered how we
see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first
published twenty-five years ago.
He probes the questions that "Maus" most often evokes--Why the
Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?--and gives us a new and essential
work about the creative process.
"MetaMaus" includes a bonus DVD-R that provides a digitized
reference copy of "The Complete Maus" linked to a deep archive of
audio interviews with his survivor father, historical documents,
and a wealth of Spiegelman's private notebooks and sketches.
Compelling and intimate, "MetaMaus" is poised to become a classic
in its own right.
"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle,
line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are
in perfect accord." - The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister
and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph
Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive
and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato
tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated
rhyming couplets. Here is a poem that can make even readers with no
time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards
of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently
lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis
Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and
vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly
powerful. It is an amazing tour de force."
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MetaMAUS (Hardcover)
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VISUALLY AND EMOTIONALLY RICH, TAKE A LOOK INSIDE ART SPIEGELMAN'S
MODERN CLASSIC, MAUS 'If you are serious about comics or the
Holocaust, this book should be on your shelf' San Francisco Book
Review MAUS is widely renowned as one of the greatest pieces of art
and literature ever written about the Holocaust. Readers adore it,
and it's studied in colleges and universities all over the world.
In MetaMAUS, Art Spiegelman re-enters the world of his
Pulitzer-prize winning graphic novel to probe the questions that it
often evokes: Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics? Including
never-before-seen sketches, alternate drafts, family photos, diary
entries and the transcript of his interviews with his father Vladek
as well as an interview with Art himself and a companion DVD,
MetaMAUS is as ground-breaking as the masterpiece whose creation it
reveals. The perfect gift, this vital companion is a must-read for
any fan of MAUS.
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'Richly rewarding...The book serves as a masterclass on the making
and reading of comics' The New York Times Book Review 'A
fascinating meditation on art, writing, and one of the darkest
periods in human history' The Atlantic 'MetaMaus will leave even
the most ardent admirers of Maus newly in awe of its author's
creative courage, ingenuity and stamina' San Francisco Chronicle
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Breakdowns (Paperback)
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The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics
form...and how it formed him! **In a new flexibound format with an
updated afterword** This book opens with Portrait of the Artist as
a Young %@&*!, creating vignettes of the people, events, and
comics that shaped Art Spiegelman. 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. Poignant, funny, complex, and innovative,
Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a
memoir. 'Art Spiegelman is the single most important comic creator'
Alan Moore
"Designed with Mr. Spiegelman's help, "Co-Mix"] has the tall,
narrow proportions of "Raw."..its images form a chronological
sampling of Mr. Spiegelman's extraordinary imagination, including
his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes
and sketches for "Maus," indelible covers for "The New Yorker,"
lithographic efforts and much else."--"New York Times"
In an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has
been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact.
His Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust memoir "Maus" established the
graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless
cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the
expressive range of comics.
"Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps" is a
comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary
cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a
half-century of relentless experimentation. Starting from
Spiegelman's earliest self-published comics and lavishly
reproducing graphics from a host of publications both obscure and
famous, "Co-Mix" provides a guided tour of an artist who has
continually reinvented not just comics but also made a mark in book
and magazine design, bubble gum cards, lithography, modern dance,
and most recently stained glass. By showing all facets of
Spiegelman's career, the book demonstrates how he has persistently
cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine
arts. Essays by acclaimed film critic J. Hoberman and MoMA curator
and Dean of the Yale University School of Art Robert Storr bookend
"Co-Mix," offering eloquent meditations on an artist whose work has
been genre-defining.
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Maus,"
the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly
personal and intensely political. "In the Shadow of No Towers," his
first new book of comics since the groundbreaking "Maus," is a
masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that
tragic day.
Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their
lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started
school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived
in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning
were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly
displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly
co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda.
He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized,
two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest
newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after
the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in
drawings and text that convey--with his singular artistry and his
characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit--the unfathomable
enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it
had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that
have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and
that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American
democracy.
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the
terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal
and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new
book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and
moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day.
Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their
lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started
school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived
in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning
were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly
displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly
co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded
in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format
that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which
Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates
his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that
convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic
provocation, outrage, and wit-the unfathomable enormity of the
event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life,
and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted
in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to
undermine the very foundation of American democracy.
Animation based on the comic by American artist Art Spiegelman
which chronicles his experience of the 9/11 terrorist attack on the
World Trade Centre. Living in Lower Manhattan, Spiegelman was
severely affected by the event which caused him to suffer from
post-traumatic stress disorder. In his work, the artist expresses
how the attack made him feel and gives his views on how the matter
was handled by the Bush administration.
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