Art Spiegelman: Comics is the Yiddish of Art

Art Spiegelman has helped bring comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative MAUS- which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. MAUS II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, formal complexity, and controversial content. His presentation will take his audience on a chronological tour of the evolution of comics while explaining the value of this medium and why it should not be ignored.
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