Art Spiegelman: Conversations

Witek, Joseph (editor)

ISBN 10: 1934110124 / ISBN 13: 9781934110126

Edité par University Press of Mississi, Jackson, MS, 2007

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8vo, 318 pp., Conversations with Comic Artists Series.

N° de réf. du vendeur 116283

Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Art Spiegelman: Conversations
• Éditeur: University Press of Mississi, Jackson, MS
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1934110124
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781934110126
• Reliure: softcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Fine copy
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Literature

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Synopsis

When the graphic novel Maus: A Survivor's Tale won a Special Pulitzer Prize in 1992 for its vivid depiction of the Holocaust and its effects, critics and mainstream audiences recognized that a comic book was capable of exploring complex aesthetic, moral, and cultural themes. Maus's creator Art Spiegelman (b. 1948) became the most famous alternative cartoonist in America.

Art Spiegelman: Conversations reveals an artist who had long been working to establish comics as a serious art form. With his wife Françoise Mouly, he founded and edited RAW-the most in-fluential showcase for avant-garde comics in America-which published early work by such well-established cartoonists as Chris Ware, Kaz, and Gary Panter. Spiegelman's essays and lectures helped to establish that comics have a history and a canon.

This collection of interviews and profiles spans 1976-2006 and covers Spiegelman's career as an artist, critic, educator, and art historian. A previously unpublished interview conducted by the volume's editor discusses themes rarely touched upon in earlier profiles.

À propos de l?auteur

Joseph Witek is director of graduate studies and professor of English at Stetson University. He is author of Comic Books as History: The Narrative Art of Jack Jackson, Art Spiegelman, and Harvey Pekar and editor of Art Spiegalman: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.