{"product_id":"dmyq725ci0rj","title":"Breakdowns (Lead Title) [Flexibound]","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMaus\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eexplores the comics form...and how it formed him!\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e**In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword**\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book opens with \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ePortrait of the Artist as a Young %@\u0026amp;*!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe second part presents a facsimile of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreakdowns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the long-sought after collection of the artist's comics of the 1970s, the book that triggers these memories. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreakdowns\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePulling 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eBreakdowns\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ealters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e'Art Spiegelman is the single most important comic creator'\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAlan Moore\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Viking Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48328412659962,"sku":"DMYQ725CI0RJ","price":1164.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0704\/0473\/5226\/files\/DMYQ725CI0RJ_1.jpg?v=1724869480","url":"https:\/\/versoz.co.in\/products\/dmyq725ci0rj","provider":"VERSOZ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}