CoMix: A Retrospective of Comics, Graphics, and Scraps

Designed with Mr. Spiegelmans help, [CoMix] has the tall, narrow proportions of Raw...its images form a chronological sampling of Mr. Spiegelmans 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 TimesIn an art career that now spans six decades, Art Spiegelman has been a groundbreaking and influential figure with a global impact. His Pulitzer Prizewinning 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.CoMix: 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 halfcentury of relentless experimentation. Starting from Spiegelmans earliest selfpublished comics and lavishly reproducing graphics from a host of publications both obscure and famous, CoMix 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 Spiegelmans career, the book demonstrates how he has persistently crosspollinated 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 CoMix, offering eloquent meditations on an artist whose work has been genredefining.