october `08 will be a good month

so i was just looking through my catalog of knopf fall 2008 titles, and at the very end i saw something very exciting:

breakdown: portrait of the artist as a young %@&*! by art spigelman

all right, maybe it's really exciting for just me, but i really loved maus I and maus II.

while some people may find it very hard to read these graphic novels, i found it to be completely necessary for me (aside from the research i was doing for a graduate paper). were they tough to read and look at some times? yes. do i shun other people who don't want to have that experience? no.

having read them, i learned things about the holocaust i was not aware of, things that disgusted me, as well as things that opened my eyes. i highly recommend them to anyone interested.


but i digress...spigelman is a great artist and now he is putting out an autobiography via the confines of a graphic novel. this fascinates me.