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Dec 2, 2008
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!

Art Spiegelman

Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! is a reissue of a 1978 collection of assorted Art Spiegelman strips from the 70s when Art was still trying to figure out how to make a living drawing comics. There is plenty of adolescent self-examination and some truly dark and uncomfortable stuff about his mothers suicide here. Amidst this he managed to craft his vision for Maus from his father's stories of Auschwitz: his parents portrayed as mice, the Nazis by cats, Poles as pigs, Americans as dogs...

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Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History

Maus II: A Survivor's Tale: And Here My Troubles Began (Maus)

When Breakdowns was reissued recently I decided that I should read both parts of Maus again. Maus: A Survivor's Tale was published in two parts: My Father Bleeds History (1986) and And Here My Troubles Began (1991). Maus won an Eisner Award and a special Pulitzer Prize in 1992.