- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- Typeset
- Synopsis
- Inside front cover is blown-up panel from Chapter 4 of Ace Hole Midget Detective. First page is small reproduction of front cover of first edition of Breakdowns. Next page is dedication page plus copyright information and next page is title page with same illustration as on the cover but with the man slipping on a banana peel instead of a comic.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Art remembers his mother drawing with him.
- Reprints
This and the rest of the strips until the reprint of Breakdowns actually begins could be read as a continuous strip. It has been divided into sections (with approximate page counts) since parts of it were both originally printed separately and have been reprinted in various locations and different configurations.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman and his mother get beaten up by a bully.
- Reprints
Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn] (untitled there).
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman draws Prisoner on the Hell Planet, about the suicide of his mother.
- Reprints
Includes what look like preliminary sketches for Hell Planet. Also includes the cover of Short Order Comix #1 and part of the the first page of Just a Piece O' Shit!
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers drawing Hell Planet, 33 years later.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers being a baby and being called a girl.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers begging his mother to buy him the paperback Inside Mad.
- Reprints
Includes a close-up of Basil Wolverton's cover of Mad #11
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers begging his mother to buy him a book on cartooning.
- Reprints
Includes two early strips by art spiegelman, "The Cop and the Drunk" (dated 6/60) and "The Loonies". In the version published in Virginia Quarterly Review, the old comic strips came last, in this version they are followed by a panel that came before them originally.
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- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman's mother tells him not to be a genius because geniuses have troubled lives.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers getting a "frontier cabin" from the back of a comic book and being disappointed.
- Reprints
- from The Virginia Quarterly Review ? [non-comic source]
Includes original ad for Frontier Cabin. Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman gets advice on packing from his father while trying to draw Tubby.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman quits playing baseball because of his lazy eye.
- Reprints
- from The New Yorker, unknown date [non-comic source]
Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman remembers his dad bringing home old, pre-code comics.
- Reprints
- from The Virginia Quarterly Review ? [non-comic source]
Includes photos of covers of some EC and Fox comics. Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Ace Hole
- Synopsis
- Ace Hole trails art spiegelman through his past.
- Reprints
- from The Virginia Quarterly Review ? [non-comic source]
Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman listens as his parents talk about being in Auschwitz.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman tells his son Dash about how Maus came about.
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Includes a reproduction of the cover of Funny Aminals where Maus originally appeared.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- Ken Jacobs
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman goes to a lecture by Ken Jacobs and gets inspired to do Maus.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman shows the first Maus strip to his father.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman shows his comics to gag cartoonists.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman gives his son a treasure chest with a dragon in it.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman watches the Dick Van Dyke Show with his parents when they get a horrible phone call.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman has a bad dream from being read Alice in Wonderland.
- Reprints
- from The Virginia Quarterly Review ? [non-comic source]
Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman tries to write a story.
- Reprints
Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- Susan Sontag
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- Words and pictures fight.
- Reprints
Includes two panels from the "Little Signs of Passion" story.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman discusses comics.
Includes panels from other art spiegelman comics, re-worked with new dialogue.
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- Victor Shklovsky
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Synopsis
- Art as experience.
- Reprints
- from The Virginia Quarterly Review ? [non-comic source]
Includes panels from The Insult that Made a Man out of "Mac!", re-worked. Also reprinted in Best American Comics 2007, The (Houghton Mifflin, 2007 series) #[nn].
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Genre
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Printed on heavy glossy stock, as if it were the outside cover of a large trade paperback.
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- art spiegelman
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- Synopsis
- Endpapers from the original book, reproducing the cover in many different color schemes.
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- Script
- ?
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Note from the publisher of the original book that the following credit page is not correct and that the book wasn't published by Nostalgia Press but by Belier Press.
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- Pencils
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Similar to cover of original book, but with man doused in ink.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Rube Goldberg-type device for committing suicide.
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- Script
- Chic Young
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Keith
- Synopsis
- Quote from Chic Young, creator of Blondie, about what makes cartoons cartoons.
- Reprints
Uses panels from other art spiegelman comics as the illustrations.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Mickey; Poppa
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Skinless Perkins
- Synopsis
- Skinless Perkins does a somersault.
- Reprints
In the afterword art spiegelman says this was "first published as a small 16-page booklet designed to look vaguely like a Thirties 'Tijuana Bible' porno comic."
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- art spiegelman; Vladek Spiegelman; Cousin; Doctor Orens; Friend of the Family; Anja Spiegelman
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman relates the story of his mother's suicide.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman's fingers talk to him.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Jack-In-the-Box; Shrink; Court Jester; Zippy the Pinhead
- Synopsis
- An investigation into aspects of humor.
- Reprints
Page count of original story is only 3. One panel from page 3 (where a man is looking in a mirror and repeating a saying to himself) is repeated over and over to make an additional page.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman; Jack Woodford
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Reprints
Some text (about half) taken from "Trial and Error. A Key to the Secret of Writing and Selling" by Jack Woodford, 1933.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- art spiegelman
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Circular strip about drinking.
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- Script
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- art spiegelman; Girl; Louie; The Clerk
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman rents 8 rooms for one hour each.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Chuck; Martha; Doctor Legman
- Synopsis
- Notes and panels from a surreal soap opera.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- moan!
- Characters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- art spiegelman dreams of being at a party and his mustache washing off.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman; Nicholas Dallis
- Pencils
- art spiegelman; Marvin Bradley
- Inks
- art spiegelman; Frank Edgington
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Keith; Valerie; Mrs. Simons
- Synopsis
- Collage of Rex Morgan, M.D. strips.
- Reprints
art spiegelman has even changed the signature on the original strips to read "Bragley and Eggington". One strip is dated 12-18.
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- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- detective-mystery
- Characters
- Ace Hole; Greta; Al Floogleman; Laurence Potato-Head; Pablo Picasso (brief cameo)
- Reprints
Divided into 5 chapters but always appears to be printed together.
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- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Back cover of the original Breakdowns.
- Reprints
- Script
- art spiegelman
- Pencils
- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- typeset; art spiegelman
- Characters
- Art Spiegelman (photo)
- Synopsis
- Essay on how some of the strips for Breakdowns were done and how it came to be published originally. Also includes some new illustrations and older drawings and stories.
Accompanied by the following, most printed small-size: A brand new illustration of Spiegelman with Ace Hole; Spiegelman's self-portrait from his intro to "The Apex Treasury of Underground Comics" (1974); "A Flash of Insight," a three-page story from 1965-66; Two flyers from 1967- "This is a Sheet of Paper! Look at it and Touch It!," "Yes, Play With Your Cells, and Become Your Own Food!;" Two 1969 "East Village Other" covers - vol. 4 #10; vol. 4 #44; A Spiegelman photo from 1969; A reprint of the Bijou Funnies #7 cover; A Belier Press flyer (1977); Zipatone overlays used for the original "Breakdowns" covers
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Characters
- Art Spiegelman; Shrink; Shorty
- Reprints
Included in the final two pages of the previous section. The last two columns of the essay are on either side of it. The first page of the story is broken up over two pages.
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman
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- art spiegelman ?
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Genre
- biography
- Characters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- A six panel walk through art spiegelman's life.
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- art spiegelman
- Inks
- art spiegelman
- Colors
- art spiegelman
- Letters
- art spiegelman
- Synopsis
- Black page signed by art spiegelman, followed by two pages of a slightly more close-up version of the front endpapers with Ace Hole.