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Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus.
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βA manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.β
βI became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.β
βWhat Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.β
βThere's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.β
βI guess I donβt subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread.β
βI never intended it to be for young adults, children, whatever. But over the years Iβve had to change my opinion. When I first got an award from the New York Public Library for best young adult book, I was annoyed, because I thought, βThirteen years to make a book for adults, and here it is getting a young adult award.β And Iβve had to modify my position over the years because Iβve now met many, many children who have studied it in school, who found it on their own, who were given it by their parents, and it actually is received with a degree of real wisdom in their reading, based on the people Iβve talked to, the young people. So, I give up. Comics are for whoever can understand them.β
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Art Spiegelman on Art Young 2 quotes
β@%&#!! I don't understand. Why would Art Young-the greatest radical political cartoonist in our history need any introduction??? Never mind, I remember now: Art Young was a Radical! Political!! Cartoonist!!!β
Art Spiegelman on Philip K. Dick
βWhat Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.β
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Matthew Baigell Jewish-American Artists on Art Spiegelman
βIn his two "comic novels for adults" (not novels in comic book form), Maus and Maus II, he insisted on involving himself with small things, actualities, and remembered events, rather than reach for grand political statements. To present his parents' story and their history accurately and effectively, "it soon became clear that I had to engage myself with the specifically Jewish aspects of my parents' situation. Any universalizing could only be achieved through particulars." It might well be that in the end the most personal is the most gripping, the individual rather than the ideological, the idiosyncratic rather than the general, the specific situation rather than the imposed set of concepts. The popularity of Spiegelman's books does not reside in their curious format but in the thoroughness of the specific story they tell-that of his parents' survival.β
About Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus.
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