Pulitzer Prize-winning author Art Spiegelman is one of our most influential contemporary artists, and it is hard to overstate his effect on postwar American culture and the world of comics. Maus has shaped the fields of literature, history, and art, and enlivened our collective sense of what these practices can accomplish. Collecting responses to the work that confirm its unique and terrain-shifting status, Maus Now sees writers such as Philip Pullman, Adam Gopnik, Ruth Franklin, and others approaching the complexity of Maus from a wide range of viewpoints and traditions. Organized into three loosely chronological sections ("Contexts", "Problems of Representation" and "Legacy"), the book offers translations of important French, Hebrew, and German essays on Maus for the first time. Maus is revelatory, and generative, in profound and long-lasting ways. With this collection, American literary scholar (and expert on comics and graphic narratives) Hillary Chute assembles the best work around the globe exploring this classic graphic biography.
Art Spiegelman Book order (chronological)
Art Spiegelman is a comics artist, editor, and advocate for the comics medium, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir. His work often delves into complex themes, utilizing the unique visual power of comics to explore them. Through his art, he seeks to push the boundaries of what can be expressed in the medium. His approach is characterized by depth and introspection.







**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.
Street Cop
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
«LA GENTE SEGUÍA RECIBIENDO HERIDAS DE BALA Y MURIENDO, COMO SIEMPRE, AUNQUE NO SIEMPRE POR ESE ORDEN». En un mundo que cambia a la velocidad de un juego de realidad virtual, un simple policía de a pie debe lidiar con todas las formas de violencia imaginables que produce una sociedad entregada a los excesos más variados: robots de reparto que se enfrentan a peatones, proveedores de drogas y drones ejecutores de presuntos terroristas. ¿Hay espacio para las emociones humanas en un universo tan tóxico... que se parece demasiado al nuestro? Un policía capaz de empatizar con estas circunstancias ¿no se convertirá en un peligro para el funcionamiento del sistema? A medio camino entre el relato de género y la distopía urbana, Street Cop sitúa la condición humana en el centro de una investigación policial insólita. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Is there room for human emotions in this toxic universe... that looks too much like ours? Robert Coover's detective novelette, STREET COP, is set in a dystopian world of infectious "living dead," murderous robo-cops, aging street walkers, and walking streets. With drawings by Art Spiegelman, this short tale scrutinizes the arc of the American myth, exploring the working of memory in a digital world, police violence and the future of urban life. STREET COP is provocative and prophetic, asking us to interrogate the line between a condemnable system and a sympathetic individual.
The Realist Cartoons
- 291 pages
- 11 hours of reading
The Realist was a legendary satirical periodical that ran from 1958 to 2001 and published some of the most incendiary cartoons that ever appeared in an American magazine. The Realist Cartoons collects, for the first time, the best, the wittiest, and the most provocative drawings that appeared in its pages, including work by R. Crumb, Art Spiegelman, S. Clay Wilson, Jay Lynch, Trina Robbins, Mort Gerberg, Jay Kinney, Richard Guindon, Nicole Hollander, Skip Williamson, and many others.
MetaMAUS
- 299 pages
- 11 hours of reading
NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER • Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals • Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize–winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published decades ago. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes—Why the Holocaust? Why mice? Why comics?—and gives us a new and essential work about the creative process. Compelling and intimate, MetaMaus is poised to become a classic in its own right.
Die Geschichte eines Überlebenden. Art Spiegelman erzählt die Überlebensgeschichte des polnischen Juden Wladek Spiegelman während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus. In seinem Bericht in Comic-Form treten die Juden als Mäuse und die Deutschen als Katzen auf.
Be a Nose!
- 300 pages
- 11 hours of reading
Lauréat du prix Pulitzer pour Maus, créateur des Crados et père du roman graphique moderne, Art Spiegelman présente la reproduction à l'état brut de ses carnets et le résultat est aussi drôle, incisif, paillard et touchant que l'homme qui se cache derrière eux. Be a nose ! est un précieux aperçu des griffonnages personnels d'un génie américain.
The story revolves around Jack and his intriguing new toy, which sparks curiosity and wonder. As Jack explores its nature, readers are drawn into a playful yet mysterious narrative that blurs the lines between fun and fear. The book invites young readers to engage their imaginations, questioning whether the toy is silly, scary, or something uniquely captivating.
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.
Big Fat Little Lit
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
New in paperback for the very first time comes the New York Times bestselling Little Lit series! Choice comic stories culled from the three bestselling comic collections edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Little Once Upon a Time, Little Strange Stories for Strange Kids, and Little It Was a Dark and Silly Night. The gorgeous paperback features flaps and beautifully reproduced full-color interiors. Hilarious and charming, the collection contains comics from such award-winning and bestselling authors and artists as Harry Bliss, Daniel Clowes, Ian Falconer, Jules Feiffer, Neil Gaiman, Crockett Johnson, Barbara McClintock, David Sedaris, J. Otto Seibold, Maurice Sendak, Lemony Snicket, and Art Spiegelman.
Introductory Essay by Art Spiegelman Commentary by Richard Merkin ABOVEGROUND FOR THE FIRST TIME As wry and raunchy as the subject it celebrates, this inspired volume introduces a new generation to the Tijuana Bibles, underground comic art form the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s devoted to making sexual mockery of every sacred cow in the pasture. Folk art with a subversive edge, the Bibles are unveiled here with a hundred life-size reproductions.
In the shadow of no towers
- 42 pages
- 2 hours of reading
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
We planted a seed in some of the most fertile minds of the cartoonists, novelists, and children's book artists. We asked them to start a story with the It Was a Dark and Silly Night... We wanted to know...What happened next??? What grew from the seed is this generous, chock-full, over-the-top jungle of silly comic book stories that show how rich the human imagination is. Lemony Snicket and Richard Sala imagined a dark and silly night where a young girl chases after a Yeti. Neil Gaiman and Gahan Wilson imagined a dark and silly night where kids throw the greatest party they ever had...in a graveyard! William Joyce tells us about kids whose Silly Ray saves the world from warrior florists. This collection of wild and silly imaginings will tickle your funny bone for years to come. Lemony Snicket • Neil Gaiman • William Joyce • Kaz • Art Spiegelman • J. Otto Seibold • Vivian Walsh • Gahan Wilson • Barbara McClintock • Richard Sala • Martin Handford • R. Sikoryak • Patrick McDonnell • Tony Millionaire • Carlos Nine • Basil Wolverton • Joost Swarte
Küsse aus New York
- 112 pages
- 4 hours of reading
„Art Spiegelman ist der George Grosz unserer Tage“ Henryk M. Broder im Tagesspiegel. „Küsse aus New York“ zeigt Spiegelmans provokante Arbeiten für den New Yorker. Nur bei uns. Art Spiegelman: bissig, aggressiv und spitze Feder. Der New Yorker: gut bürgerlich, kultiviert, blasée. Zehn Jahre lang hat Spiegelman („Maus“) für den New Yorker Titelbilder entworfen. Der „zur Zeit bedeutendste amerikanische Comic-Künstler“ (Künstlerkollege ATAK in Das Magazin) wurde angestellt, um zu provozieren. Meist gelang es ihm besser als erwartet. Zum Osterfest und Steuertermin zeichnet Spiegelman einen Osterhasen, der gekreuzigt auf einer Steuererklärung ausblutet. Es hagelt Proteste von der christlichen Rechten (der der heidnische Hase eigentlich egal sein sollte). Weltberühmt wurde Spiegelmans überraschender Bildkommentar zum 11.9.: Die World Trade Center-Türme ganz in schwarz vor schwarzem Hintergrund - diesmal ging Spiegelman das Thema zu nah. Seine Tochter Nadja ging auf der anderen Straßenseite vom WTC zur Schule, beide waren Augenzeugen als die Türme einstürzten. Die Titelbilder gibt es jetzt als Buch. Zusammen mit Entwürfen, Skizzen, abgelehnten Versionen und Kommentaren von Spiegelman selbst.
Innovative cartoonists and renowned children's book artists from around the world have gathered to bring you the magic of fairy tales through the wonder of comics. The stories range from old favorites to new discoveries, from the profound to the silly. A treat for all ages, these picture stories unlock the enchanted door into the pleasures of books and reading.
The Wild Party: The Lost Classic by Joseph Moncure March
- 120 pages
- 5 hours of reading
Art Spiegelman's striking black-and-white illustrations breathe new life into Joseph Moncure March's 1928 poem, The Wild Party. The dynamic designs complement the rhythmic, hard-boiled narrative of debauchery, making it a captivating read even for poetry skeptics. Louis Untermeyer hailed it as a powerful, fascinating tour de force.
Der neugierige kleine Hund verirrt sich bei der Kaninchenjagd im Wald. Er findet Unterschlupf bei einer Hexe ...
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling version." As a result of a strange phone call in the middle of the night, Quinn, a writer of detective stories, becomes enmeshed in a case more puzzling than any he might have written. Written with hallucinatory clarity, City of Glass combines dark humor with Hitchcock-like suspense. Ghosts and The Locked Room are the next two brilliant installments in Paul Auster's The New York Trilogy.
Mr. Vertigo
- 278 pages
- 10 hours of reading
'I was twelve years old the first time I walked on water.' Meet Walt, the irrepressible hero of Paul Auster's astonishing new novel, the orphan from the mid-West who is set on the road to stardom by the dark and mesmerising figure of Master Yehudi. When the master takes little Walt back to the mysterious house on the great plains, he initiates the tutorial process that will culminate in Walt learning to fly.
"Maus I" was the first half of the tale of survival of the author's parents, charting their desperate progress from pre-war Poland Auschwitz. Here is the continuation, in which the father survives the camp and is at last reunited with his wife.
The bestselling second installment of the graphic novel acclaimed as “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” (Wall Street Journal) and “the first masterpiece in comic book history” (The New Yorker) • PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • One of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read” 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.
Read Yourself Raw
Pages From The Rare First Three Issues Of The Comics Magazine For Damned Intellectuals
- 86 pages
- 4 hours of reading
Comic strips offer a surreal look at city life, death, television, alienation, art, tragedy, and love
Maus 1
A survivor's tale
Maus is a haunting tale within a tale. Vladek's harrowing story of survival is woven into the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Against the backdrop of guilt brought by survival, they stage a normal life of small arguments and unhappy visits.














