Art Spiegelman « The Hooded Utilitarian

Voices From the Archive: Charles Hatfield on Why Maus Is Not Glib

“Maus moves many people for a reason, something your dismissive posturing cannot account for.”

#5: <em>Maus: A Survivor’s Tale</em>, Art Spiegelman

August 3, 2011
By Jeffrey Chapman
Best Comics Poll, Best Comics Poll Top Ten
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#5: Maus: A Survivor’s Tale, Art Spiegelman

Spiegelman demonstrated that comics, which always labor under the onus of being dismissed as children’s fare, can grapple with the weightiest topics.

The Real, The True, and The Told

An excerpt from The Real, The True, and The Told concerning Art Spiegelman’s Maus

The Roundtable Has Pants: Garooga

Greetings, Hooded Utilitarians. My name is Casey Rae-Hunter, and I’m a so-and-so who lives in Washington, DC. Both personally and professionally, my karma sees to it that I wrangle with issues at the intersection of creativity, policy and technology. I also wear pants, which have been known to have years, and vice versa. It is my [...]

March 5, 2011
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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If Spiegelman Says It, It Must Be True

Spiegelman claims a similar kind of tension, a similar difficulty of representation. But his art does not justify the claim. On the contrary, the use of caricature, which Priego sees as emphasizing the problems of communication, actually finesses it.

September 10, 2008
By Noah Berlatsky
Blog
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In The Shadow of No Talent

This originally ran in The Comics Journal a ways back. I reprinted it at my old group blog Eaten By Ducks, but I thought it’d be nice to have it here in case I had a reader or two who hadn’t seen it. For me, as for millions of Americans, September 11, 2001 was no [...]