Art Spiegelman interview: 'My compatriots on the Left are so f-----g humourless'
Art Spiegelman at the opening of his Paris retrospective in 2012 Credit: Bertrand Langlois When Art Spiegelman was offered the commission for his latest project – to illustrate a “novelette” by the veteran author Robert Coover – he accepted with his standard disclaimer. “I wrote back to say, ‘As long as it has no mice or Jews, I’d like to see if I can do this.’” Where some artists get pigeon-holed, Spiegelman has become mouse-holed. His most famous work is Maus, the 1980s comic book based on his parents’ tribulations in Auschwitz, which defamiliarised and recaptured af...
Source: telegraph.co.uk