A richly illustrated book in which leading cultural critics, authors, and academics reflect on the radical achievement and innovation of Art Spiegelman's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece Maus

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 prac...

Breakdowns, the legendary 1978 collection of comics by Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Maus, presents the seminal works that changed how comics are made and appreciated today.

Innovative, serious, funny, and many decades ahead of its time, the book is presented here in its entirety . . . along with an introduction almost as long as the book it introduces that’s as autobiographically intimate and experimentally daring as everything else in Breakdowns.