Art Spiegelman in the Times

Mon, Nov 24, 2008

Comics and cartoons, Interviews

I had the amazing – to me – insight that comics are a narrative medium, but a narrative is a story, which comes from the Latin historia, referring to the horizontal rows of a building – and that comes from those early painted-glass comics that were used in churches to tell the superhero story of that guy who could walk on water. I was ultimately obsessed by comic structure.” With the recent publication of Breakdowns: Portrait of the Artist as a Young %@&*! the one and only Art Spiegelman talks to Tom Gatti in the Times (thank to Michael Moran for the link)

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