Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman #[nn]

*Artful Breakdowns: The Comics of Art Spiegelman*, edited by Georgiana Banita and Lee Konstantinou, is a scholarly collection that takes a serious, engaged look at one of comics' most thoughtful and challenging creators. The cover photograph sets an appropriately studious tone — a bespectacled man seated before packed bookshelves holds a pen dipped in an ink bottle, suggesting the careful, deliberate craft at the heart of Spiegelman's work. Published in 2023 by the University Press of Mississippi, this is the kind of volume that rewards readers who want to dig deeper into what comics can do as an art form.