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Maus volume Volume 1
Language
English
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Description
In a world where Jews are mice, Germans are Cats and the Polish are pigs, a son documents his parents' experience during the Holocaust and his relationship with his father.
"On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of its first publication, here is the definitive edition of the book acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history"...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Physical Desc
80 pages : chiefly illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm
Language
English
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Description
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Maus" explores the comics form--and how it has formed him. This illustrated essay looks back at the 1960s as the artist pushes 60, in this collection that alters the terms of what can be accomplished in a memoir.
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
135 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
A memoir of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume...
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st rev. ed.
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : ill. (some col.) ; 37 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son, in a volume that includes a facsimile of Breakdowns, the artist's comics from the 1970s.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
299 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm. + 1 videodisc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part 1 of the DVD-ROM contains a digital reference copy of both volumes of Maus, hyperlinked to an archives of sketches and page drafts, audio clips of Vladek (Spiegelman's survivor father) about his life as a Polish Jew during World War II, as well as documentary source material, video clips, and audio commentary by the cartoonist; pt. 2 contains a collection of supplementary documents, sources, and commentary.
Author
Publisher
Drawn & Quarterly, a client publisher of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Drawn & Quarterly edition.
Physical Desc
136 pages : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 35 cm.
Language
English
Description
"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"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Library of America volume 210
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxv, 833 p. : chiefly ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still unrivaled richness of drama, characterization, imagery,...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 211
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
xxv, 693 p. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
272 p. : ill., facsims. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
For decades, readers throughout the world have enjoyed the marvelous stories and illustrations of Theodor Seuss Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss. But few know the work Geisel did as a political cartoonist during World War II, for the New York daily newspaper PM. In these extraordinarily trenchant cartoons, Geisel presents "a provocative history of wartime politics" (Entertainment Weekly). Dr. Seuss Goes to War features handsome, large-format reproductions...
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