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I see a fascinating tension in SpiegelmanвЂ™s work: he has a predisposition towards formalism, but his sympathies lie with the rebels and iconoclasts. Published in underground magazines throughout the 70s, the Breakdowns pieces have a rough, raw energy I love, combined with a brilliant eagerness to rethink the art form at every moment. But when I finally did, it was something of a revelation. It took me a little while to get a hold of Breakdowns. I knew SpiegelmanвЂ™s work from Raw, the influential magazine he co-edited with FranГ§ois Mouly. This was when I was living in New York, working on Zot!, my first comics series. Scott McCloud: I first read Breakdowns, Art SpiegelmanвЂ™s collection of formal experiments in comics, after I graduated from college in the early '80s. He spoke to me by phone from his home in Newbury Park, California. Other works include Destroy!!, Zot!, and the comic that introduced the world to Google Chrome. McCloud has won an Eisner Award for Understanding Comics, and is a four-time winner of the Harvey Award. You hope itвЂ™s all going to be integrated into the work, and that your instincts can take over.вЂќ

Internalize the theory, metabolize it, and donвЂ™t have any undigested bits floating on the surface. вЂњWhen going for straight storytelling, thatвЂ™s what you hope to do. вЂњWhat I tried to do was bury the theory,вЂќ he said. I asked McCloud about his experience of telling a full-length story after focusing on nonfiction for so long. The SculptorвЂ™s protagonist makes a Faustian bargain with Death, who comes to him in the form of a dead relative: For 200 days, heвЂ™ll be able to sculpt anything he wants, but after that heвЂ™ll die. In our conversation for this series, McCloud explained how Art SpiegelmanвЂ™s classic 1978 collection Breakdowns (recently republished by Pantheon) helped inspire his unexpected turn towards nonfiction-how SpiegelmanвЂ™s early comic вЂњCracking JokesвЂќ taught him about the principles of humor, and how the strip revealed to him comicsвЂ™ uncanny educational potential.ДЄrtistic creation is the key theme of McCloudвЂ™s new book. McCloud is best known as a theorist-heвЂ™s spent the better part of his career on a trio of graphic textbooks ( Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics, and Making Comics) that deconstruct the magic and mystery of the form. Scott McCloudвЂ™s been making comics professionally since 1984, but a new book, The Sculptor, is his first full-length graphic novel.

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