Description: The definitive critical appraisal of the great comics artist's six-decade career as a pioneer, curator, and theorist
Brief description: Lee Konstantinou is associate professor of English literature at University of Maryland, College Park. He is author of the novel Pop Apocalypse: A Possible Satire and the literary history Cool Characters: Irony and American Fiction, and coeditor of The Legacy of David Foster Wallace.
Review Quotes: While critical attention to Spiegelman has been extensive, it has also been extremely narrow, with the vast bulk of the critical literature focusing all or in part on Maus. Artful Breakdowns will be the definitive word on Spiegelman's entire career as artist, editor, and public intellectual.--Joseph Witek, professor of creative arts at Stetson University