Breakdowns (original 1978; edition 2008)

A reprint of a fairly groundbreaking but ignored comic from the late 1970s by Art Spiegelman, with a graphic introduction and a textual afterword. I found much of the content of Breakdowns inaccessible but I enjoyed the autobiographical foreword and afterword. ( )

Versão original do livro com material tanto antigo quanto inédito do Art Spiegelman.

Hillary Chute, Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows, currently writing a book on contemporary women cartoonists, has chosen to discuss Art Spiegelman's Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, on FiveBooks (http://five-books.com) as one of the top five on her subject - Graphic Narratives, saying that:

“…Breakdowns was first published in 1978 in an edition of 5,000 copies, 1,000 of which were ruined in an accident at the printers. For years it’s been a rare, coveted book, so when Pantheon republished it in 2008 it was unbelievable. I remember seeing a used first edition of Breakdowns in a New York store for $375 and it was on sale. It was the book everybody wanted but couldn’t afford, and now it costs $27.50. .…”.

The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/hillary-chute ( )

This book as Spiegelman is not as enduring as Maus but a must see, more than a must see. ( )