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Breakdowns Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! #[nn]
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeThis 2008 Pantheon volume collects Art Spiegelman's early, experimental comics and illustrations from the 1970s, including the original 'Breakdowns' portfolio, alongside a new autobiographical comic that reflects on his artistic evolution. The title references both the content—a deconstruction of comic form and personal history—and Spiegelman's own journey as a creator before and after his landmark work 'Maus'. It serves as a raw, self-aware look at the artist's process and the medium's possibilities.
"Breakdown" is a striking, self-reflective work from Art Spiegelman, the acclaimed creator of Maus, who handles every aspect of the interior art, inking, and coloring with his signature precision and emotional depth. The issue opens with a series of meticulously crafted pages that blend personal history and artistic process, beginning with a blown-up panel from Ace Hole Midget Detective and leading into a title page that reimagines the cover image with a subtle, telling twist—where a man slips on a banana peel instead of a comic.
In "Nervous Rex the Malpractice Suite," the familiar panels of vintage Rex Morgan, M.D. are fractured and reassembled into a surreal, self-aware collage. The story plays with the form of the comic strip, turning the original's medical melodrama into a disorienting meditation on narrative and image.
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↩ Reprints Funny Aminals #1 (1972), Short Order Comix #1 (1973), Short Order Comix #2 (1974), Young Lust #4 (1974), Arcade the Comics Revue #1 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #2 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #3 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #4 (1975), Arcade the Comics Revue #5 (1976), Arcade the Comics Revue #6 (1976), Breakdowns: From Maus to Now: An Anthology of Strips #[nn] (1977), Virginia Quarterly Review #4 (2005), Virginia Quarterly Review #4 (2006), Virginia Quarterly Review #1 (2007)
Reprinted in The Best American Comics #2009 (2009), Breakdowns - retrato do artista quando jovem #[nn] (2009), Breakdowns portrett av kunstneren som ung #[nn] (2019)
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