By Drew Grant 9/21/11 4:01pm

Graphic Novels

maus

Art Spiegelman Gets MetaMaus With New Book Trailer [Video]

Maus, Art Spiegelman‘s graphic novel series where Nazis are cats and Jewish people are mice (and the Swedish are inexplicably reindeer) is still the only comic book to have won a Pulitzer. As the story progresses, the art in Maus gets pretty meta — Mr. Spiegelman inserts himself into the narrative by interviewing his Holocaust-surviving father, who is a mouse, (as is Mr. Spiegelman) but at certain parts his character lifts off his mask and behind it there a person. But that isn’t Art Spielgman either, just another facsimile of his persona that he created in attempt to understand his relationship with his own story. Read More

By Adam Begley 10/06/08 5:15pm

Our Critic’s Tip Sheet on Current Reading: Spiegelman’s Self-Portrait; Wisdom Begins at Sixty-Five

Knowing something about comics—and something about Art Spiegelman—is a prerequisite to enjoying Breakdowns (Pantheon, $27.50), a reissue of some of the artist’s edgy early work, prefaced by new comics of a simultaneously autobiographical and theoretical nature (“The fetid odor of his self-absorption made me gag”), and capped off with an autobiographical and historical afterword. In Read More

By Adam Begley 9/13/04 12:00am

Image of Twin Towers Ablaze Haunts Narcissistic Cartoonist

In the Shadow of No Towers , by Art Spiegelman. Pantheon, 42 pages, $19.95.

Of all the prizes and honors heaped over the years on Maus , Art Spiegelman’s great Holocaust cartoon, perhaps none was more telling than the distinction of appearing on The New York Times ‘ best-seller list first as a work Read More

By Sridhar Pappu 1/06/03 12:00am

Spiegelman Splits From The New Yorker

Art Spiegelman, who’s broken up with The New Yorker about as many times as Elizabeth Taylor did with Richard Burton, says he and the magazine have reached the town of Splitsville … again.

Speaking from Paris on Dec. 29, Mr. Spiegelman told Off the Record that he had decided not to renew his contract, which Read More

By Ron Rosenbaum 4/01/02 12:00am

Honoring a Picket Line At the Jewish Museum

All those who just can’t bear the idea of hearing anything

further on the Jewish Museum’s Mirroring

Evil exhibit are hereby excused from reading further. I understand the bridge

column has some thought-provoking bid strategies to discuss this week. Or those

who’d like to read about yours truly’s brief moment of glory (ignominy?) on

Oscar Read More

By Gabriel Snyder 1/15/01 12:00am

Times Snubbed Miami Herald as Chad Orgy Reopens in Florida

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, six national news heavyweights, including The New York Times , finally agreed on Tuesday, Jan. 9, to work together to examine all the uncounted Florida ballots from the2000 Presidential election.

Hopping into the Florida hot tub with The Times are The Washington Post , Tribune Publishing (owners of the Read More

By Gabriel Snyder 1/15/01 12:00am

Times Snubbed By Miami Herald as Chad Orgy Reopens in Florida

After weeks of behind-the-scenes wrangling, six national news heavyweights, including The New York Times , finally agreed on Tuesday, Jan. 9, to work together to examine all the uncounted Florida ballots from the2000 Presidential election.

Hopping into the Florida hot tub with The Times are The Washington Post , Tribune Publishing (owners of the Read More