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Nadja Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman

In the history of comix and graphic novels, there so far has been only one Pulitzer winner, in 1992: Maus, a collection of work by Art Spiegelman originally serialized in the magazine Raw. The genesis of Maus can be found in an early 1970s strip in Spiegelman's first collection drawn from his underground comix work, Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, which is returning to print in December. Spiegelman will discuss this early work during a Wisconsin Book Festival talk, on Crowdcast; register here.

Discussing "Breakdowns," graphic novel, on Crowdcast.

media release: Breakdowns is the chronicle of Spiegelman’s story, featuring vignettes of the people, events, and comics that shaped him. Art Spiegelman will appear on Crowdcast to discuss Breakdowns. Join the event at: https://www.crowdcast.io/e/wbf-breakdowns. Before the event begins, you will see a countdown and the event image.

Breakdowns is told in three ways—in 20 pages of comix that give us the story of his rebellious adolescence, a section on the work he did in the 1970s as an underground comix artist (this book brings back into circulation—and restores—the work of his first book, Breakdowns, out of print for 30 years), and an 8-page essay in which Art looks at the role of comics in the 1970s and how, in ways he didn’t understand until much later, it was already coalescing into a medium whose resurgence now is evident everywhere.