The Wild Party
(Autor) Art Spiegelman"Spiegelman's drawings are like demonic woodcuts: every angle, line, and curve jumps out at you. Stylishness and brutishness are in perfect accord." - The New York Times Art Spiegelman's sinister and witty black-and-white drawings give charged new life to Joseph Moncure March's Wild Party, a lost classic from 1928. The inventive and varied page designs offer perfect counterpoint to the staccato tempo of this hard-boiled jazz-age tragedy told in syncopated rhyming couplets. Here is a poem that can make even readers with no time for poetry stop dead in their tracks. Once read, large shards of this story of one night of debauchery will become permanently lodged in the brain. When The Wild Party was first published, Louis Untermeyer declared: "It is repulsive and fascinating, vicious and vivacious, uncompromising, unashamed . . . and unremittingly powerful. It is an amazing tour de force."
Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman is an American cartoonist known for his influential work in the graphic novel genre. He is best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel "Maus," which depicts the Holocaust through the story of his father's experiences as a Polish Jew during World War II. Spiegelman's unique blend of visual storytelling and poignant narrative style has had a significant impact on the graphic novel genre, elevating it to a respected form of literature. His work often explores themes of trauma, memory, and the complexities of personal and collective history. Spiegelman's contributions to literature have solidified his place as a groundbreaking artist in the world of comics and graphic novels.