Bücher von Art Spiegelman

The Complete MAUS is a captivating masterpiece by the renowned author, Art Spiegelman. Published in 2003 by Penguin Books Ltd, this book has left an indelible mark in the literary world. The genre of this book is a unique blend of biography, memoir, and graphic novel, presenting a deeply personal and riveting story. The Complete MAUS is not just a book but a journey that takes you through the heart-wrenching experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust. Art Spiegelman's storytelling is both powerful and poignant, making this book a must-read. Penguin Books Ltd, a leading publisher, has beautifully put together this book, further enhancing the reading experience. This English language edition is a testament to Art Spiegelman's literary genius and is sure to leave a lasting impact on every reader.

For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, 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.

Zum 75. Geburtstag von Art Spiegelman, dem Schöpfer von »Maus«: »Eine coole Noir-Dystopie« Clemens Meyer »Dieses Buch ist ein kleiner Geniestreich!« MDR Kultur Die Zeiten, als ein Mord eine große Sache war, sind endgültig vorbei. In einer Welt der Roboter, Drohnen und fliegenden Autos geht ein altmodischer Bulle auf Streife. 2020 hatte Robert Coover gerade eine Geschichte um den letzten New Yorker Streifenpolizisten geschrieben - und bat Art Spiegelman, sie zu illustrieren. So entstand inmitten der Pandemie ein Buch über die Zukunft - und eine Liebeserklärung an den Comic von einem seiner größten Künstler. In einer Welt der Roboter und fliegenden Autos zieht ein altmodischer Streifenpolizist durch New York. Er sehnt sich nach den Tagen, als die Zeit noch linear verstrich und Häuser nicht plötzlich ihren Ort wechselten. Mit Hilfe einer künstlichen Intelligenz, in die er sich ein bisschen verliebt hat und begleitet von einer seltsamen Untoten, macht sich der Street Cop auf die Suche nach einer angeblichen Leiche. »Street Cop« ist eine erschreckend gegenwärtige kleine Dystopie - und ein seltener Glücksfall, der drei erzählerische Großmeister zusammenbrachte: Art Spiegelman, Robert Coover - und Clemens Meyer, der das Buch ins Deutsche übersetzte.

The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus explores the comics form...and how it formed him!**In a new flexibound format with an updated afterword**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.'Art Spiegelman is the single most important comic creator' Alan Moore

This legendary 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of the best-selling Maus, presents the seminal early works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today—now with a new Afterword by the author.“Some of the smartest criticism of the comics genre ever rendered.” —NPRInnovative, serious, funny, and many decades ahead of its time, Breakdowns is offered here in its entirety: the long-sought-after collection of the artist''s comics of the 1970s, along with an introduction almost as long as the book it introduces—and just as autobiographically intimate and experimentally daring.   At once the story of an artist and of his medium, Breakdowns alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.

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

The paperback boxed set of the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel in its original two-volume format, re-released to include a sixteen page booklet designed by the artist. Acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal), Maus is considered "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker).A brutally moving work of art-widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written-Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats. Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.

»Wer darüber nicht schweigen will, wovon er nicht sprechen kann, der muss es zeigen, indem er es zeichnet.« Die WeltSeit 2001 haben sich drei globale Erschütterungen ereignet, die der Welt neue Einsichten abverlangen: 9/11, Finanzkrise, Fukushima. Die erste dieser drei Erschütterungen hat Art Spiegelman fassbar gemacht, indem er sich der Katastrophe, die ihn ganz unmittelbar selbst betraf, mit künstlerischen Mitteln gestellt hat: Am Tag, an dem die Flugzeuge in die Zwillingstürme einschlugen, raste er durch eine Stadt in Panik, um seinen damals neunjährigen Sohn aus der UN-Schule zu holen, von der er fürchtete, sie würde ein weiteres Anschlagsziel sein.In einem jahrelangen Ringen um sein inneres Gleichgewicht hat Art Spiegelman den Schrecken jenes Tages in Kästchen und Sprechblasen gebannt, die sich zu einer Graphic Novel ohnegleichen fügten. Es bedurfte eines außergewöhnlichen Geistes und einer außergewöhnlichen Begabung, um 9/11 auf diese Weise begreifbar machen: Im Schatten keiner Türme ist sowohl in seiner ästhetischen Qualität als auch in seiner gesellschaftlichen Aktualität ein Solitär.

"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." - The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force."