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This is another jam-packed weekend at Family. On Saturday at 7pm, Dave Scott Stone and Nite Jewel are playing in honor of Dave's new 7" with Teardrops, and the brand new LA special issue of the Fingered DVD compilation.
Then Sunday at 2pm is the launch of Art Spiegelman's new book, 'Breakdowns - Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!'
Spiegelman will present Todd Browning's 'Freaks' at the Silent Movie Theatre followed by a signing at Family at 4pm.
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, teh 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.
Then Sunday at 2pm is the launch of Art Spiegelman's new book, 'Breakdowns - Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!'
Spiegelman will present Todd Browning's 'Freaks' at the Silent Movie Theatre followed by a signing at Family at 4pm.
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, teh 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.
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