Art Spiegelman

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form—and how it formed him. Spiegelman traces his life, from a MAD-comics-obsessed boy in Queens to an adult examining his parents’ memories of Auschwitz. An illustrated essay looks back at the ’60s as the artist reaches sixty.

“Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!”

Amazing graphic artist Art Spiegelman has set the precedent for graphic artists everywhere; using intelligence, talent, and literary whit to speak to social commentary and truly expand the world of story telling as we know it. He has ... (more)been a contributing editor and cover artist for "The New Yorker" since 1992.

Art Spiegelman has received The National Book Critics Circle nomination in both 1986 and 1991, the Guggenheim fellowship in 1990, and a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992. His art has been shown in museums and gallery shows in the United States and abroad, including a 1991 show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City .

Breakdowns, his newest book, opens with 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 creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" explores the comics form…and how that form has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, and explains the obsessions that brought his works into being. Poignant, funny, complex and innovative, Breakdown alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

Mr. Spiegelman will be discussing, signing and answering audience Q&A. More details of the exact format of the event night to come.

Before there was Maus, there was Breakdowns, a small press collection of Spiegelman's work during the 1970's. Now legendary, Spiegelman reintroduces that influential 1978 collection with a new introduction and a concluding essay that reflects on his life as drug-addled young cartoonist in the 60's and ... (more)the transformations that led to his breakdowns.

In Breakdowns, a reissue of his 1978 collection of early strips, Art Spiegelman, creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, explores the comics form -- and how it has formed him. Including a new illustrated essay that looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, this collection alters the ... (more)terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.