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“To die, it’s easy. But you have to struggle for life.” —from Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Discover the definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel that’s been hailed as “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker—one of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read.”
“I felt like I was looking into the future... and the future looked really messed up.” —from Black Hole
This banned books week, dare to read Charles Burns's "masterwork" (The New York Times) graphic novel—a hypnotically beautiful and horrifying story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle.
Read the classic graphic memoir that remains "urgent, necessary reading" (Kirkus Reviews) twenty years after it was originally created—the story of Marjane Satrapi's unforgetable childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution.
"A banned book is always a good book. After all, what better company to be in than Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain?" —Marjane Satrapi, in the new introduction to the anniversary edition of Persepolis
“I felt like I was looking into the future ... and the future looked really messed up.” —from Black Hole
This banned books week, dare to read Charles Burns's "masterwork" (The New York Times) graphic novel—a hypnotically beautiful and horrifying story of a strange plague devastating the lives of teenagers in mid-1970s suburban Seattle.
"A banned book is always a good book. After all, what better company to be in than Oscar Wilde and Mark Twain?"—Marjane Satrapi, in the new introduction to the anniversary edition of Persepolis
Read the classic graphic memoir that remains "urgent, necessary reading" (Kirkus Reviews) twenty years after it was originally created—the story of Marjane Satrapi's unforgettable childhood and coming of age in Tehran during the Iranian Revolution.
“To die, it’s easy. But you have to struggle for life.” —from Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Discover the definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel that’s been hailed as “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker—one of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read.”
“Spiegelman has turned the exuberant fantasy of comics inside out by giving us the most incredible fantasy in comics’ history: something that actually occurred…. The central relationship is not that of cat and mouse, but that of Art and Vladek. Maus is terrifying not for its brutality, but for its tenderness and guilt.” —The New Yorker
“To die, it’s easy. But you have to struggle for life.” —from Maus I: A Survivor’s Tale: My Father Bleeds History
Discover the definitive edition of the Pulitzer Prize–winning graphic novel that’s been hailed as “the first masterpiece in comic book history” by The New Yorker—one of Variety’s “Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read.”
“I feel like they want a kinder, gentler Holocaust to present to their children.” —Art Spiegelman, responding to the banning of Maus by the McMinn County School Board
In January 2022, a Tennessee school board banned Art Spiegelman’s seminal graphic memoir—the only graphic novel to win the Pulitzer Prize—from their 8th grade curriculum. But with the rise of antisemitism across the U.S., there’s no better, or more important, time to revisit the book that The Wall Street Journal called “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust.”
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Chip Kidd is the best known book designer in the business. How well known? He has not one but two books showcasing his innovative design work–Chip Kid Book Two, Work: 2007-2017 is now out from Rizzoli, New York.
