Maus Now: Art Spiegelman in Conversation with Hillary Chute

Art Spiegelman discusses the enduring legacy of Maus, his classic graphic biography, after the book’s recent banning by a school board in Tennessee and upon the publication of Maus Now, Hillary Chute’s new collection of writing from contemporary authors exploring the work’s radical achievement.
“In Maus, Spiegelman not only modeled definitively that in fact comics could be remarkably sophisticated, literate and subtle-but he also blew open about a thousand other cliches and pieties about art and representation, particularly in the expression of the darkest aspects of human history,” writes Chute in the book’s introduction.
Recorded Dec 1, 2022.
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[@RandomNerd654]

I know this was posted 8 months ago, and I’m three days late, but to Art, happy late birthday!

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i love this man's mind

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<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1070">17:50</a> I'm not sure if Mr. Spiegelman is mixed up about his own work or I'm confused, but that photo is of *Vladek* after he was freed from the camps, and an enterprising photographer was taking photos of people who could dress in a cleaned-up camp uniform, which Vladek decided to do, to have a photo of himself. That's not Richieu, that's Vladek. Richieu is indeed in the little bitty picture up on the wall in the house Art grew up in, that was Art's dead, and therefore ideal, rival in childhood.