Co: Toronto Comic Jam Discussion Group / Dave Howard
A Talk supported by Random House of Canada Ltd: Friday, October 22 at 8 pm (Brigantine Room)
Art Spiegelman (U.S.A.) has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative, Maus, which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. Having rejected his parents’ aspirations for him to become a dentist, Spiegelman studied cartooning in high school and began drawing professionally at age 16. His work has since been published in many periodicals, including The New Yorker, where he was a staff artist and writer for ten years. “Spiegelman has become one of The New Yorker’s most sensational artists, in recent years drawing illustrations for covers that are meant not just to be plainly understood but also to reach up and tattoo your eyeballs with images once unimaginable in the magazine of old moneyed taste” (Los Angeles Times). His highly political drawing series, In the Shadow of No Towers, has been published in a number of European newspapers and magazines including Die Zeit and The London Review of Books. A book version of In the Shadow of No Towers has just been published.
I can't find Seth on their website, but the flier they handed out at Adrian Tomine's reading indicated Art Spiegelman and Seth would be together, 'in conversation'. - Dave
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