ART SPIEGELMAN: CO-MIX: A RETROSPECTIVE OF COMICS, GRAPHICS, AND SCRAPS - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Art Spiegelman - SIGNED ON THE PAGE ITSELF

Spiegelman, Art (Artist); Hoberman, J. & Storr, Robert (Contributors)

ISBN 10: 1770461140 / ISBN 13: 9781770461147

Published by Montreal, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2013, 2013

About this Item

1st Printing. Signed. 140 pages. Published in 2013. Retrospective collection of the artist's oeuvre. One of the most beautiful and valuable art books of our time. The First Hardcover Edition. Precedes and should not be confused with all other subsequent editions. It should also not be confused with the French-language version, which contains only half of the materials that are in this book. Published in a small and limited first print run as a hardcover original only. The First Edition is now scarce. A brilliant production by Art Spiegelman and Drawn & Quarterly: Oversize-volume format. Pictorial hard boards with red under-boards and titles on the cover and spine, as issued. Art, text, and vintage materials (drawn from his personal archives) by Art Spiegelman. Essays by two contributors. Printed on thick, archival stock paper to the highest standards. Without DJ, as issued. Presents, in one lavish volume, Art Spiegelman's "CO-MIX: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, And Scraps". His ground-breaking, earth-shattering, sublime graphic art. The title refers to the multi-media mix that characterizes the artist's body of work, and also brilliantly plays on the word "comics", which remains Spiegelman's preferred word for his graphic novels. "In a career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been an influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning Holocaust memoir, 'Maus', established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics. A comprehensive career overview of the output of this legendary cartoonist, showing for the first time the full range of a half-century of relentless experimentation. 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. Demonstrates how he has persistently cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine arts" (Publisher's blurb). Not everything that can be said about Spiegelman, whose genius is inexhaustible, is in this book. But his greatest work, as personally selected by him, is here to savor forever and ever. An absolute "must-have" title for Art Spiegelman collectors. This copy is very boldly and beautifully signed in red pen-marker on the title page by Art Spiegelman. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a bookplate, as copies available online are. This title is a great book. This is one of very few such signed copies of the First Hardcover Edition/First Printing still available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. Please note: Copies available online have very serious flaws, are subsequent printings, or are remainder-marked. This is surely an accessible and lovely alternative. A rare signed copy thus. Winner of the Guggenheim Grant and the Pulitzer Prize in 1986 for "Maus". The greatest American graphic artist of our time. A fine collectible copy. (SEE ALSO OTHER ART SPIEGELMAN TITLES IN OUR CATALOG) ISBN 1770461140.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: ART SPIEGELMAN: CO-MIX: A RETROSPECTIVE OF COMICS, GRAPHICS, AND SCRAPS - Rare Pristine Copy of The First Hardcover Edition/First Printing: Signed by Art Spiegelman - SIGNED ON THE PAGE ITSELF
• Publisher: Montreal, Canada: Drawn & Quarterly, 2013
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1770461140
• ISBN 13: 9781770461147
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: None, As Issued
• Signed: Signed by Author

About this title

Synopsis

"Designed with Mr. Spiegelman's help, [Co-Mix] has the tall, narrow proportions of Raw...its images form a chronological sampling of Mr. Spiegelman's extraordinary imagination, including his precocious early work, underground comics, preparatory notes and sketches for Maus, indelible covers for The New Yorker, lithographic efforts and much else."―New York Times

In an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prize-winning holocaust memoir Maus established the graphic novel as a legitimate form and inspired countless cartoonists while his shorter works have enormously expanded the expressive range of comics.
Co-Mix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps is a comprehensive career overview of the output of this 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. By showing all facets of Spiegelman's career, the book demonstrates how he has persistently cross-pollinated the worlds of comics, commercial design, and fine arts. 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.

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. In 2011, Spiegelman was elected president of the Angoulême International Comics Festival and was awarded the Grand Prix of the Festival. He lives in New York City.