“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)
Tue, Apr 14, 2009
Comics and cartoons, Interviews