New Releases by Art Spiegelman

NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals • Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse 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 decades 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. Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.

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 ___________________________________________________________________________ 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. ___________________________________________________________________________ ''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

When magic touches an old peach tree, strange things start happening. A giant peach grows as large as a house, and when James crawls inside, the adventure begins. Lane Smith has created wonderful new illustrations based on the characters in the new full-l

"All of the [students], black, Latino, white, male, and female, talk about the unease and alienation endemic to their ages, and they do it in fresh and appealing voices. Rich and complex."- Kirkus Reviews "As always, Grimes gives young people exactly

"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.

Using comic book format, the author chronicles his father''s experience of the Holocaust and its impact on this family.

"My best drawings have often been on stray scraps of paper, falling somewhere between unconscious doodles and focused drawings ... When McSweeney''s actually offered to produce a large file folder of my scraps, the counterintuitive idea of replicating my detritus goaded me into presenting some sketchbooks that had enough momentum to go on for more than a few pages. One, from 1979, is here called "BE." The most recent one, from 2007, catalyzed this current folly when it stumbled in the world as part of McSweeney''s 27. It''s here called "A." A favorite sketchbook from 1983, "NOSE," completes the set"--Introductory pamphlet "Liner Notes" by Art Spiegelman, p. [2] of Introduction.

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form ... and how it formed him! 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.

"This comic gem of a picture book demonstrates Spiegelman''s ability to conquer his audience, no matter its constituents...This book choreographs jokes with an exquisite understanding of climax and denouement. As with the other books from this publisher, the design is sophisticated, making elegant use of panels, and easy-to-handle small format and subtle, low-contrast hues. That the vocabulary and the matchup of dialogue balloons to the action are geared to beginning readers is icing on the cake."—Publishers Weekly Jack just got a new toy, and it’s full of surprises. Each time the box pops open, there’s a new and bigger surprise. Is it a silly toy, a scary toy... or something else entirely?

In his first new book of comics since the Pulitzer-Prize winning Maus, Art Spiegelman gives us a deeply personal, politically charged, graphically and emotionally stunning account of the events and aftermath of September 11, 2001. In a large, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics, Spiegelman conveys--through his singular artistry, his 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.

On 11th September 2001, Art Spiegelman raced to the World Trade Center, not knowing if his daughter Nadja was alive or dead. Once she was found safe in her school at the foot of the burning towers he returned home, to meditate on the trauma, and to work on a comic strip. Subversive, iconic, and burningly articulate, In the Shadow of No Towers is New Yorker Art Spiegelman''s extraordinary account of ''the hijacking on 9.11 and the subsequent hijacking of those events'' by America.

The reissue of this classic manga''s first volume has impeccable timing. It recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book''s themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war''s realities) ring chillingly true today. Despite its harrowing nature, this work is invaluable for the lessons it offers in history, humanity and compassion. Published to coincide with the 60th anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing.

Starting a few months before Hiroshima was destroyed by an atomic bomb in 1945, this four-volume saga shows life in Japan after years of war and privations. Volume 4 resumes nine days after the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, as Gen and his mother continue to struggle for food, shelter and water. Their indomitable human spirits prevail amidst chaos and vast human suffering. Though confronted with the most despicable aspects of humankind, Gen acts with love and compassion.

Art Spiegelman est l''auteur de Maus, Un survivant raconte (Flammarion, 1987 et 1992), couronné par le Prix Pulitzer. Les deux volumes de Maus ont été traduits dans dix-huit langues. Art Spiegelman et sa femme Françoise Mouly ont fondé ensemble, puis dirigé de 1980 à 1991, Raw, magazine reconnu et influent consacré à la bande dessinée et au graphisme d''avant-garde. De 1992 à 2002, Art Spiegelman a travaillé comme dessinateur et journaliste au New Yorker, qui, quelques jours après le 11 septembre, a publié sa puissante couverture noir sur fond noir. (Bons Baisers de New York, Flammarion 2003). Les dessins et gravures d''Art Spiegelman ont été exposés dans les musées et galeries du monde entier. Art Spiegelman vit, en dépit de tout, dans le bas de Manhattan avec sa femme et leurs deux enfants, Nadja et Dashiell.

Combined 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 Holocaust through cartoons the author captures the everyday reality of fear and the sensation of survival.

Un chiot subit plusieurs métamorphoses. Il est d''abord changé en berger par une sorcière, puis en crapaud par une fée, finalement en livre par un méchant magicien. La preuve de tout cela est la laisse au dos du livre. Qui porte une laisse sinon un chien! Amusant, original, le temps de la laisse.

A dog explains how he came to be a book after falling foul of a wizard''s curse, in a book that includes a leash, a wagging tale, and fuzzy endpapers.

A dog explains how he came to be a book after falling foul of a wizard''s curse in a book that includes a leash, a wagging tail and fuzzy endpapers.