Spiegelman, Art

Maus : a survivor's tale by Art Spiegelman ( Book )
55 editions published between 1986 and 2008 in 5 languages and held by 3,380 libraries worldwide
The author-illustrator traces his father's imprisonment in a Nazi concentration camp through a series of disarming and unusual cartoons arranged to tell the story as a novel.

Maus II : a survivor's tale : and here my troubles began by Art Spiegelman ( Book )
29 editions published between 1986 and 2010 in English and held by 2,738 libraries worldwide
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" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume of Art Spiegelman's Maus introduced readers to Vladek Spiegelman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and his son, a cartoonist trying to come to terms with his father, his father's terrifying story, and History itself. Its form, the cartoon (the Nazis are cats, the Jews mice), succeeds perfectly in shocking us out of any lingering sense of familiarity with the events described, approaching, as it does, the unspeakable through the diminutive. As the New York Times Book Review commented," [it is] a remarkable feat of documentary detail and novelistic vividness...an unfolding literary event." This long-awaited sequel, subtitled And Here My Troubles Began, moves us from the barracks of Auschwitz to the bungalows of the Catskills. Genuinely tragic and comic by turns, it attains a complexity of theme and a precision of thought new to comics and rare in any medium. Maus ties together two powerful stories: Vladek's harrowing tale of survival against all odds, delineating the paradox of daily life in the death camps, and the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father. Vladek's troubled remarriage, minor arguments between father and son, and life's everyday disappointments are all set against a backdrop of history too large to pacify. At every level this is the ultimate survivor's tale -- and that too of the children who somehow survive even the survivors.

In the shadow of no towers by Art Spiegelman ( Book )
23 editions published in 2004 in 4 languages and held by 2,142 libraries worldwide
For Art Spiegelman, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Maus, the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 were both highly personal and intensely political. In the Shadow of No Towers, his first new book of comics since the groundbreaking Maus, is a masterful and moving account of the events and aftermath of that tragic day. Spiegelman and his family bore witness to the attacks in their lower Manhattan neighborhood: his teenage daughter had started school directly below the towers days earlier, and they had lived in the area for years. But the horrors they survived that morning were only the beginning for Spiegelman, as his anguish was quickly displaced by fury at the U.S. government, which shamelessly co-opted the events for its own preconceived agenda. He responded in the way he knows best. In an oversized, two-page-spread format that echoes the scale of the earliest newspaper comics (which Spiegelman says brought him solace after the attacks), he relates his experience of the national tragedy in drawings and text that convey-with his singular artistry and his characteristic provocation, outrage, and wit-the unfathomable enormity of the event itself, the obvious and insidious effects it had on his life, and the extraordinary, often hidden changes that have been enacted in the name of post-9/11 national security and that have begun to undermine the very foundation of American democracy.

Dr. Seuss goes to war : the World War II editorial cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel by Richard H Minear ( Book )
2 editions published in 1999 in English and held by 1,233 libraries worldwide
The hardcover edition of Dr. Seuss Goes to War was published to extraordinary acclaim, selling out four printings and featured in publications from the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times to Entertainment Weekly and Mother Jones. Now, for the first time, the book that the New York Times Book Review hailed as "fascinating" is available in paperback.

Maus I : a survivor's tale : my father bleeds history by Art Spiegelman ( Book )
23 editions published between 1986 and 1997 in English and held by 1,175 libraries worldwide
Memoir about Vladek Spiegelman, 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 with history itself. The second volume follows the family's move from Auschwitz to the Catskills.

Folklore & fairy tale funnies ( Book )
2 editions published in 2000 in English and held by 1,126 libraries worldwide
Accompanied by parts for a game attached to front and rear flyleafs, game board on front lining paper.

Barefoot Gen : a cartoon story of Hiroshima by Keiji Nakazawa ( Book )
11 editions published between 1989 and 2004 in English and Undetermined and held by 962 libraries worldwide
This captivating story of Hiroshima was one of the original Japanese manga series. New and unabridged, this is an all-new translation of the author's first-person experiences of Hiroshima and its aftermath, a reminder of the suffering war brings to innocent people. Its emotions and experiences speak to children and adults everywhere. Volume One of this ten-part series details the events leading up to and immediately following the atomic bombing of Hiroshima.

It was a dark and silly night ( Book )
2 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 843 libraries worldwide
A collection of comic strips by various artists, each of which begins with the phrase, "It was a dark and silly night."

Jack and the box : a toon book by Art Spiegelman ( Book )
3 editions published between 2008 and 2009 in English and held by 826 libraries worldwide
Mom and Dad give Jack a new toy, but what's in the box? Is it silly or scary, or something else entirely?

The Toon treasury of classic children's comics ( Book )
2 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 816 libraries worldwide
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.