Tag Archive | "Art Spiegelman"

Sendak and Spiegelman….

Saturday, May 12, 2012

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This I’d never seen before Joe putting it up on the site, and Neil Gaiman’s post where he asked this: “When I heard this morning that Maurice Sendak had died, I asked the New Yorker over Twitter if they could unlock a two page comic: art spiegelman and Maurice Sendak in conversation in 1993, drawn by [...]

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Goodnight, Max

Thursday, May 10, 2012

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I know I posted on the sad passing of the great Maurice Sendak yesterday, but Charles Santoso’s tribute art is simply too lovely not to share on here. And on a related note Neil Gaiman asked the New Yorker very nicely if they could unlock a couple of pages of comics by Sendak and Art [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman in Paris

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

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Co-Mix, the grand exhibition of his own life’s work that Art Spiegelman curated on the occasion of his presidency of the Angoulême Festival at the beginning of this year year (to much international acclaim), is going on the move.  from March 21st until May 21st you can visit the show, free of charge this time, [...]

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From our continental correspondent – Spiegelman conquers Angouleme

Friday, January 27, 2012

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I attended the comics festival of Angoulême a couple of times in the past, and even though the event generally has a fairly international feel to it, it’s always been a predominantly French affair, albeit with a good contingent of guests from other lands. With the presidency of Art Spiegelman however, it would seem that [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme – the exhibitions

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

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One of the main reasons for going to the bande dessinee festival in Angoulême, next to bumping into some of your heroes in the street and ending up having coffee with them, are the exhibitions.  It seems the organisers are trying to crank it up a notch with every edition. Last year Art Spiegelman won [...]

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Counting down to Angouleme : Spiegelman speaks

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

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The tradition dictates that whoever wins the Grand Prix at the Angoulème Comics Festival, is invited to curate the next edition of the Festival.  This means that he or she will probably get a major retrospective exhibition (which are always a treat in their own right), but also that the festival will focus on particular [...]

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Tom Spurgeon talks to Art Spiegelman

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

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The excellent Tom Spurgeon talks to iconic, Pulitzer-winning cartoonist Art Spiegelman. Being Tom, of course, the talk, while discussing the new and completely fascinating MetaMaus book (much recommended, by the way), takes in much more than his Maus related work, starting off with chatting to Art about his upcoming stint at what for many of [...]

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Art Spiegelman lecture

Thursday, November 10, 2011

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SHU ComicsAnimation has uploaded a good, long video featuring Art Spiegelman giving a lecture – it features discussion about Maus, the Holocaust in the media and the craft of creating comics, although it is over two hours in running time, so you may want to bookmark for when you have enough time to sit through [...]

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Win Maus 25th anniversary editions & MetaMaus

Monday, October 31, 2011

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It’s hard to believe that it is 25 years since Art Spiegelman’s Maus first appeared in its collected edition. On the other hand perhaps it is easy to believe, in some ways it feels like it has always been here. Cleverly mixing the personal (a son and father with a distant relationship) and one of [...]

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MetaMaus – a quick tour

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

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Paul Montgomery offers up a quick, unofficial tour through the rather splendid looking MetaMaus from Penguin, which celebrates the 25th anniversary of Art Spiegelman’s remarkable, Pulitzer-winning graphic novel: Inside Art Spiegelman’s MetaMaus, an Unofficial Tour from Paul Montgomery on Vimeo.

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Ten years on

Sunday, September 11, 2011

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(above:New Yorker’s 24th September 2001 cover by Art Spiegelman and Françoise Mouly: below, Ana Juan’s cover for the New Yorker’s tenth anniversary memorial to 9-11, see their full article and slideshow here) I’m normally not shy of expressing my opinions, but not today, not today. No opinions, no editorials, no judgements, no political ranting on [...]

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What the %&*! Happened to Comics?

Thursday, September 8, 2011

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The SBC Gallery, Librairie Drawn & Quarterly and POP Montreal  are coming together to present one of the icons of the comics medium, the Pulitzer winning Art Spiegelman, who will be combining a launch for the upcoming MetaMaus (a very special new edition packed full of extras to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his stunning [...]

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Toon Readers, new from Toon Books..

Sunday, November 22, 2009

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Over on the Toon Books website, they’ve a couple of very nice tools for early readers; Toon Creator and Toon Reader. Two lovely little applications, one allows children to listen to the authors reading the books aloud while they click on the balloons and turn the pages whilst the other allows the readers to make [...]

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From our continental correspondent – festival news

Monday, July 27, 2009

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With summer only half-way, it might be the right time to start thinking of how to spend the second half of the year. What better way to do that than by checking what the festival calendar has to offer for the next few months ? A few highlights : On the 28th, 29th and 30th [...]

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