Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! Paperback Artists Armed with a fresh

Armed with a fresh

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MICHAEL CHABON is the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize–winning author ofThe Mysteries of Pittsburgh

Jon Foster’s work has graced the pages of a vast array of publications

Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! Paperback Artists Armed with a freshThe 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