Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps - Hardcover

Art Spiegelman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1770461140 ISBN 13: 9781770461147

Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly, 2013

Synopsis

"CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of legendary, Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Gorgeous full-page reproductions of Spiegelman's artwork, including covers for R. Crumb s Short Order Comix and panels from Maus, overwhelm the senses. 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 in every sense of the word. CO-MIX began as a museum retrospective detailing Spiegelman s lifelong involvement with comics, and was published in France in a bilingual edition, accompanying Spiegelman s presidency at the prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival. This expanded North American edition will have an additional thirty-two pages of content, including a full-size insert of the long-out-of-print Raw comic, Two Fisted Painters, and Spiegelman s New Yorker comics about authors Maurice Sendak, Charles Schulz, and Harvey Kurtzman Spiegelman has been a leader of, and an inspiration for, alternative comics artists throughout the past three decades, long before RAW Magazine and Maus, and in CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps, readers will be able to trace the evolution of this multifaceted artist throughout his storied career. "

About this title

About the Author

Born in Stockholm in 1948, Art Spiegelman was the first comics artist to win the Pulitzer Prize, which he received for his groundbreaking bestseller Maus. He coedited Raw, and his comics have appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Playboy, and Harper's. He has been named one of the 100 Most Influential People by Time, elected to the Art Director Club's Hall of Fame, made a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005 (promoted to Officier in 2012), and played himself on The Simpsons.

From the Back Cover

Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of the 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Drawn and Quarterly
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770461140
• ISBN 13: 9781770461147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 120