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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman (/ ˈ s p iː ɡ əl m ən / SPEE-gəl-mən; born February 15, 1948), professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus.
Art Spiegelman Art [c] (born 1948) is a cartoonist and an intellectual. [26] [3] Art is presented as angry and full of self-pity. [3] He deals with his own traumas and those inherited from his parents by seeking psychiatric help, which continued after the book was completed.
Breakdowns is a collected volume of underground comic strips by American cartoonist Art Spiegelman.The book is made up of strips dating to before Spiegelman started planning his graphic novel Maus, but includes the strip "Maus" which presaged the graphic novel, and "Prisoner on the Hell Planet" which is reproduced in Maus.
Spiegelman has said that the book was a way to reclaim himself from the post-traumatic stress disorder he suffered after the attacks. It also has many references to Spiegelman's Maus comics, for example one in which Art said that the smoke in Manhattan smelled just like Vladek said the smoke in the concentration camps smelled.
Françoise Mouly (French:; born 24 October 1955) is a French-born American designer, editor and publisher. [1] She is best known as co-founder, co-editor, and publisher of the comics and graphics magazine Raw (1980–1991), as the publisher of Raw Books and Toon Books, and since 1993 as the art editor of The New Yorker.
First edition. MetaMaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus is a book by Art Spiegelman, published by Random House/Pantheon Books in 2011. [1] [2] The centerpiece of the book is an interview with Art Spiegelman, the author of Maus, conducted by Hillary Chute.
By the mid-1970s, the underground comix movement was encountering a slowdown, [1] and Spiegelman and Griffith conceived of Arcade as a "safe berth". It stood out from similar publications by having an ambitious editorial plan, in which Spiegelman and Griffith attempted to show how comics connected to the broader realms of artistic and literary culture. [3]
Raw was a comics anthology edited by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly and published in the United States by Mouly from 1980 to 1991. It was a flagship publication of the 1980s alternative comics movement, serving as a more intellectual counterpoint to Robert Crumb's visceral Weirdo, which followed squarely in the underground tradition of Zap and Arcade. [1]