Art Spiegelman has drawn some of the New Yorker‘s strongest
covers—including the famous black-on-black 9/11 cover—not
to mention the masterpiece that is Maus. His
newest book is called Breakdowns: A Portrait of the Artist as a
Young %@&*!, and it chronicles Spiegelman’s eager childhood
corruption at the altar of pulpy sex-and-violence comics (as
well as a disappointing attempt to mail-order a log cabin). From that
lurid launch pad, Breakdowns reprints some of Spiegelman’s
earliest—and most innovative—work. (Town Hall, 1119
Eighth Ave, 634-3400. 7:30 pm, $5.)
Art Spiegelman
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Very odd, and a bit sad that a man who made his career chronicling the demise of European Jewry makes a public, paid appearance on Erev Yom Kippur.
As a not-very-religious son of Holocaust survivors, I think this is in incredibly bad taste.