Art Spiegelman
1) MetaMaus
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The New York cartoonist traces the creative process that went into drawing his Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, revealing the sources of his inspiration and describing his parents' emotional struggles as Holocaust survivors after the end of World War II.
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Art Spiegelman se aproxima al tema del Holocausto relatando la experiencia de su propia familia en forma de memoria gráfica. Maus es la biografía de Vladek Spiegelman, judío polaco superviviente de los campos de exterminio nazis, contada por su hijo Art, dibujante de cómics que quiere dejar memoria de la persecución sufrida en Europa por millones de personas y de sus consecuencias en la vida cotidiana de las generaciones posteriores.
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6) I'm a dog!
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A dog explains how he came to be a book after falling foul of a wizard's curse, in a book that includes a leash, a wagging tale, and fuzzy endpapers.
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"Maus nos cuenta la historia de Vladek Spiegelman, un judío superviviente del Holocausto, y de su hijo, un historietista que intenta reconciliarse con su padre, con la terrible historia de este y con la mismísima Historia. La forma de este relato, un cómic (donde los nazis son gatos y los judíos, ratones), logra desposeernos de cualquier atisbo de cercanía que podamos tener con los hechos que aquí se refieren, y lo consigue precisamente porque...
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Presents more than two hundred reproductions of the political cartoons of Theodor Geisel, better known as Dr. Seuss, written during World War II for the daily newspaper, "PM," between 1941 and 1942, and that comment on isolationism, racism, and anti-Semitism. Primary source material.
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Garbage Pail Kids-a series of collectible stickers produced by Topps in the 1980s-combined spectacular artwork and over-the-top satire. The result was an inspired collaboration between avant-garde cartoonists and humorists including Art Spiegelman, Mark Newgarden, John Pound, Tom Bunk, and Jay Lynch. A new generation of fans continues to embrace this pop-culture phenomenon as Garbage Pail Kids stickers are still being published. Now, for the first...
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Harvey Kurtzman's Jungle Book is considered one of the "Top 100 Comics of the 20th Century" by The Comics Journal and is widely regarded to be a lost classic. Written and illustrated by Kurtzman, Jungle Book inspired and influenced comics creators such as Robert Crumb, Art Spiegelman, Gilbert Shelton, and Terry Gilliam. Back in print for the first time in over twenty-five years, this deluxe hardcover features an essay by comics archivist Denis Kitchen;...
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In the 1980s a bunch of underground cartoonists parodied a popular doll, whose name can't be spoken. The resulting commercial trading cards, and stickers tapped into an international zeitgeist that was brewing in a young generation who felt that this product spoke to the revulsion they had for the corporate pop culture that was being fed to them. Learn the truth behind the myth of The Garbage Pail Kids.
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In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump Inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from thirty bestselling and award-winning authors--including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child--with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen. This work features...