Art Spiegelman and his controversial political comic art…
Posted by MJ on May 22, 2008
The downtown Buffalo Library today will have a presentation by Art Spiegelman who is a counterculture icon, American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel memoir, Maus. This is part of the Get Graphic program (blog) and is entitled “Comix 101″.
Buffalo Rising has more information on this presentation.
From the Art Spiegelman Wikipedia entry…
…Spiegelman worked for The New Yorker for ten years but resigned a few months after the September 11 terrorist attacks. The cover created by Spiegelman and Mouly for the September 24 issue of The New Yorker received wide acclaim. At first it appears to be totally black, but upon close examination it reveals the silhouettes of the World Trade Center towers in a slightly darker shade of black. Spiegelman states that his resignation from The New Yorker was to protest the “widespread conformism” in the United States media. Spiegelman is a sharp critic of the administration of President George W. Bush and claims that the American media has become “conservative and timid.
Mr. Spiegelman started out as a major figure in the underground comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s and much of his comic art is very political and controversial in nature. I have come across a PowerPoint presentation which features dozens of slides of his unique comic art for those interested. Enjoy…
“Click” to download the comic art of Art Spiegelman presentation…
If you do not have Microsoft Office or PowerPoint installed on your computer to view the presentation then download the free PowerPoint Viewer 2007 program here.
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