In the Shadow of No Towers Board book and Breakdowns HC both by Art Spiegelman

Description: In the Shadow of No Towers Board book – 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. Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! ---- 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.I've been collecting comics DVD?s and books for over 30 yearsand it's time to clean out my attic!Due to the recent hacking of ebay, I now Change my password on a weekly basis to make my site as secure as possible.Please subscribe to my newsletter so you're aware of my new postings. My main goal is to clear out space so I can actually enjoy my collection and make a few bucks. I'm more than happy to combine auctions to save on shipping. It may take a couple of days if they don't fit in a flat rate box but I'm pretty flexible. The last time I sold books I had a great reputation on eBay and hope to continue to build upon it.The More you buy the more I'm willing to make a deal to get rid of my extra collection! I'll happily combine orders to reduce postage. Sorry, no international shipping.I ship Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays before workOriginal Cover Price $47.45

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