Art Spiegelman Archives

It is meant to include the artists whose work was used to develop Midjourney's AI art offering. They include comic book creators such as Tim Bradstreet, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Art Spiegelman, Brian Bolland, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bill Watterson, Bill Willingham, Ben Templesmith, Adi Granov, Al Davidson, Alex Toth, Arthur Rackham, Arthur Suydam, Scott McCloud, Ryan North, Mort Drucker,[...]

Anderson, Margaret Atwood, Derf Backderf, Alison Bechdel, Khalil Bendib, Matt Bors, Ellen Crenshaw, Mike Curato, Juno Dawson, Evan Dorkin, Neil Gaiman, Roxane Gay, Deborah Hopkinson, Miles Hyman, Kelly Jensen, Lita Judge, Rupi Kaur, Maia Kobabe, Lois Lowry, Carmen Maria Machado, Dylan Meconis, Ryan North, David Small, Amir Soltani, Art Spiegelman and Colleen AF Venableare. Missouri schools[...]

Right now, Maus Book One by Art Spiegelman is the second best-selling book on Amazon The Complete Maus is the fourth best-selling book on Amazon And Maus Book Two is the eleventh best-selling book on Amazon They are all the first, second and third best-selling graphic novels on Amazon, with the box-set in fifth place. And[...]

Forty-two years after it was first released, Art Spiegelman's Maus is currently the twelfth best-selling graphic novel on Amazon.com for Book One, and 13th for the Complete Maus I wonder why? Well, it's all thanks to a school board in McMinn County, Tennessee which unanimously voted to remove Maus, the only graphic novel to win[...]

Bleeding Cool identified that Chip Zdarsky and Jim Cheung's Marvel Two-In-One had a joke the referenced an 'orange monster' removed and since then no oblique reference to Donald Trump has seen publication. It is in this light it seems that Art Spiegelman, author of Maus, says that he was asked to remove criticism of Donald Trump from[...]

The second volume contains known creators such as Roz Chast, Kristin Radtke, Miriam Katin, Cathy Malkasian, Laura Park, Lauren Weinstein, Daniel Clowes, Art Spiegelman, and more, along with new names, mostly female, some never-before-published, solicited through an open call and published under the slogan "Women's Voices Will be Heard," Stores are also encouraged to use them[...]

Its director, Gilles Ciment was fired as Director earlier this year after what he said were significant conflicts with the city and the festival. However, Ciment now has a petition on his behalf, signed by hundreds of comic creators demanding that he be fairly treated. It begins with Art Spiegelman, but also includes  Lewis Trondheim, José Muñoz, Emmanuel Guibert, Lorenzo[...]

Our exploration of Art Spiegelman's use of animals for different groups sparked quite a heated conversation We also debated whether or not his graphic novel should be considered an historical work.  In dealing with comics and censorship (as well as autobiography), we read and discussed Blankets Many students were shocked that so many graphic novels[...]

Well played, Raulo. HMS: What do you think that comics, specifically, can do to influence social awareness and ideas? MB: I think comics have a tremendous (and, I think) still underestimated potential to educate as well as entertain.  I could talk about the influence of comics like Art Spiegelman's Maus or Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis[...]

There will also be an artist panel discussion with David Small, Peter Kuper, and Mark Newport, moderated by Harper on Friday, April 4th, at 5 p.m. As for the contents of the exhibit, it is incredibly wide-ranging, so here are some of the areas of focus and the contributing artists: Firstly, "graphic novelists who were contemporaries of[...]

Paul Karasik (The New Yorker), David Mazzucchelli (Daredevil, Asterios Polyp), and Art Spiegelman (Maus, In the Shadow of No Towers ), sat down for the first time in a public forum to discuss the work they created 20 years ago, the graphic novel adaptation of Auster's City of Glass With 20 years to think about[...]

Characteristically, his narrative was about the discomfort he felt painting the mural quickly under the gaze of one of his comics idols Art Spiegelman, literally sweating it out and critiquing himself mercilessly It was one of many encounters with personal idols he experienced during his US outing, forcing him to confront his own extreme fandom[...]

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool A different kind of comic con came to Chicago this past weekend as the University of Chicago hosted Comics: Philosophy and Practice, a three-day academic conference that hosted the biggest names in the history of alternative comics and graphic novels. The roster of guests is literally the Who's Who of[...]