Traditionally, magicians have been wary of sharing the secrets of their trade for fear that it would be impossible to razzle-dazzle audiences that had the lowdown about the backstage machinery that ...

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A book-length interview with Art Spiegelman, saturated with sketches, notes, digressions and self-analysis, it’s an in-depth argument for the fact that there might be nothing quite so vital and ...

Art Spiegelman shattered the conventions of comic books and Holocaust literature with the publication of “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that depicts the Nazis as cats and the Jews as ...

Art Spiegelman published his biographical graphic novel "Maus" more than 25 years ago. A lot came along with its publication - a Pulitzer Prize, an exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art in 1992 and ...

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman's epic Holocaust graphic novel, Maus, was published 25 years ago. Spiegelman's new book, MetaMaus, explores that... In his book Breakdowns, Art Spiegelman explains how Mad ...

“A quest for ersatz verisimilitude might have pulled me further away from essential actuality as I tried to reconstruct it,” muses the author of a seminal work of literature about the Holocaust. In a ...

In 1972 a young American cartoonist called Art Spiegelman published a three-page comic strip about the horrific “bedtime stories” his father used to tell him “about life in the old country during the ...