Author: Spiegelman, Art
Brand: Drawn & Quarterly
Edition: Revised ed.
Features:
- Used Book in Good Condition
Binding: Hardcover
Number Of Pages: 120
Release Date: 17-09-2013
Part Number: Full Colour
Details: Product Description "Designed with Mr. Spiegelman's help, [Co-Mix] has the tall, narrow proportions of Raw...its images form a chronological sampling of Mr. Spiegelman's extraordinary imagination, including his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes and sketches for Maus, indelible covers for The New Yorker, lithographic efforts and much else."―New York Times In an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust memoir Maus established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics. Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a half-century of relentless experimentation. Starting from Spiegelman's earliest self-published comics and lavishly reproducing graphics from a host of publications both obscure and famous, Co-Mix provides a guided tour of an artist who has continually reinvented not just comics but also made a mark in book and magazine design, bubble gum cards, lithography, modern dance, and most recently stained glass. By showing all facets of Spiegelman's career, the book demonstrates how he has persistently cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine arts. Essays by acclaimed film critic J. Hoberman and MoMA curator and Dean of the Yale University School of Art Robert Storr bookend Co-Mix, offering eloquent meditations on an artist whose work has been genre-defining. From Booklist Spiegelman is best known for his Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel, Maus (1986), but the comics cognoscenti laud him for a five-decade body of work that includes some of the most formally daring efforts the medium has seen. Based on a museum retrospective, this lavish coffee-table compilation encompasses Spiegelman’s 1970s commercial work (including Topps gum trading cards and stickers); book illustrations; New Yorker covers (including his acclaimed 9/11 tribute); and even a painted-glass window done for a New York City school. But his comics output is appropriately at the fore, from his late-1960s underground comics and his groundbreaking strips for his 1980s avant-garde magazine, Raw, to his recent nonfiction pieces for the New Yorker, including tributes to cartoonists Charles Schulz and Harvey Kurtzman. Combining brazen experimentation with lowbrow yuks, Spiegelman pulls off the hat trick of being simultaneously intelligent, graphically compelling, and entertaining. Maus did much to “legitimize” comics to the wider world, but this thoughtfully curated, elegantly presented volume is an even more convincing testament to the potential of the medium. --Gordon Flagg Review “A classic of a different kind – by which I mean that I am declaring it to be a classic right here and now – is Co-Mix, a "retrospective" of comics, graphics and "scraps" by Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer prize-winning author of Maus. Among the collectors' items gathered within are full-page reproductions of covers for Robert Crumb's Short Order Comix; a full-size insert of the long out of print Raw comic Two-Fisted Painters; and Spiegelman's peerlessly brilliant New Yorker strips about Maurice Sendak and – my favourite – Charles Schulz. The ultimate swank present for any completist Spiegelman fan.” ―Guardian Graphic Books of the Year Review “Exploring the breadth of his work, [Co-Mix] shows that, perhaps more than any other single artist, Spiegelman has energized the range of emotional possibility in comics.” ―San Francisco Weekly “As [Co-Mix] makes clear, Spiegelman's only true comics peer is Robert Crumb.” ―The Montreal Gazette “What's refreshing about Co-Mix is the level to which it demonstrates Art's diversity. While many retrospective publicat
EAN: 0884917239605
Package Dimensions: 13.3 x 9.5 x 0.8 inches
Languages: English