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Summary: Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals. In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics, and the Holocaust ever since it was first published twenty-five years ago. He probes the questions that Maus most often evokes -- Why the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPISpiegelman, Art.
Summary: The Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus tells the story of Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist coming to terms with his father's story. Maus approaches the unspeakable through the diminutive. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), shocks us out of any lingering sense of familiarity and succeeds in "drawing us closer to the bleak heart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1997
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 920 SPISpiegelman, Art.
Summary: A biography of the author's father, Vladek Spiegelman, a Polish Jew and Holocaust survivor told in a graphic narrative in which Jews are depicted as mice, while Germans are depicted as cats. Maus is the only comic book ever to have won a Pulitzer Prize.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1986
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1 available in Graphic Novels, Call number: 940.5318 SPISpiegelman, Art
Summary: A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 1991
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Spiegelman, Art, author.
Summary: The creator of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus reflects on the comics form and its influence on his life and art as he traces his evolution from comics obsessed boy to a neurotic adult exploring the effects of his parents' memories of Auschwitz on his own son, in a volume that includes a facsimile of Breakdowns, the artist's comics from the 1970s.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2008
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 SPISummary: A collection of comics drawn from Golden Age comic books from the 1940s through the early 1960s features selections from such comics as Captain Marvel, Pogo, Donald Duck, and Dennis the Menace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 TOOWare, Chris
Summary: "A flabbergasting experiment in publishing hubris, Monograph charts the art and literary world's increasing tolerance for the language of the empathetic doodle directly through the work of one of its most esthetically constipated practitioners. For thirty years, writer and artist (i.e. cartoonist) Chris Ware (b. 1967) has been testing the patience of readers and fine art fans with his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 WARSummary: "Comics have a pipeline to something very basic about the way people think." When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948)...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Mississippi 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 741.597 SPIBliss, Harry
Summary: A young boy's fascination with pigeons soon erupts into a full-blown chase around Central Park, across the Brooklyn Bridge, through a fancy restaurant, and into the sky.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RAW Junior 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 BLIWard, Lynd
Summary: From the eve of the Great Depression to the onset of World War II, Lynd Ward, America's first great graphic novelist, bore witness to the roiling, dizzying national scene as both a master printmaker and a socially committed storyteller. His medium of expression, the wordless "novel in woodcuts," was his alone in the United States, and he quickly brought it from bold iconic infancy to a still...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARSummary: A collection of comics drawn from Golden Age comic books from the 1940s through the early 1960s features selections from such comics as Captain Marvel, Pogo, Donald Duck, and Dennis the Menace.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Abrams ComicArts 2009
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 ToonDavis, Eleanor.
Summary: Stinky, a monster who lives in a swamp, gets upset when a boy named Nick starts hanging around his swamp, and so he tries to scare Nick away.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Little Lit Library 2008
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2 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 DAVNakazawa, Keiji.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 0000
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 BARWard, Lynd
Contents: Reading pictures / Art Spiegelman -- Prelude to a million years -- Song without words -- Vertigo -- On "Prelude to a Million Years" -- The equinox idea -- On "Song Without Words" -- On "Vertigo" -- The Book and the woodblock.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 761.2 WARLynch, Jay.
Summary: After a genie fulfills Otto the cat's wish by turning the whole world orange, Otto realizes that his favorite color is not the best color for everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Toon Books 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 LYNMinear, Richard H.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 MINNakazawa, Keiji.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Last Gasp of San Francisco 2003