“I was also trying to make comics that weren’t like anything else I saw, They weren’t directed toward punch lines, and they were surreal. They had no possible place to be published,” – Art Spiegelman discusses his early underground comix days, knowing he was succeeding in being OTT when Crumb’s wife banned him from their house, the effect of 9/11 on him and the early Maus images which appeared in Breakdowns (recently republished) on the VOA site.
(an early Maus sketch from Breakdowns, by and (c) Art Spiegelman)
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