Mar 16 2009
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Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*!, by Art Spiegelman, Pantheon Books
reviewed by Gary Moskowitz for More Intelligent Life (The Economist)
“Sipping from a glass of white wine and secretly itching for a cigarette (he later admitted), Art Spiegelman glibly entertained a gaggle of British adult comic-book fans. We were all in a small theatre at London’s Institute for Contemporary Arts, where Spiegelman explained his rationale for what is perhaps one of his most shocking drawings from the 1970s: a decapitated man getting fucked in the neck….”
