Art Spiegelman

Born 15 Feb 1948

From Stockholm, Stockholm County, Sweden · Nationality: United States

Art Spiegelman (born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman.

Source: Art Spiegelman on Wikipedia

Quotes

“What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.”
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“A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.”
On his work Breakdowns : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@?*! 1978; 2008
“There’s a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It’s not just an exorcism.”
As quoted in "Art Spiegelman on ‘Breakdowns’ Redux and the Dark Side of Tina Fey
“Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood.”
On his book Jack and the Box, as quoted in "Smart Art : Spiegelman doesn’t dumb
“I was asking the school shrink, ‘Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?’ I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink.”
As quoted in "Breakfast with the FT: Art Spiegelman 'Drawn from Memory'" in Fina