Art Spiegelman
Recent articles about Art Spiegelman
Getting into good trouble
Issue 108, Spring 2025
While we doomscroll, Spiegelman is still the poster boy for consequential drawing, and he reminds us that enduring printed matter still matters …
Comic Detours And Digressions
Issue 63, Spring 2007
It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…
Comic sans the grown-ups
Issue 74, Winter 2009
There are two names responsible for bringing comics ‘out of the trash and into a…
Stories unfolding in time and space
Issue 31, Spring 1999
With a revival of journalistic visual essays in US magazines, illustrators are once again becoming integral contributors to the editorial mix
Comic books come back with a cautious bang
Issue 36, Summer 2000
After a 1990s bubble that went splatt, the comics industry has begun to renew itself through new formats, from glossy hardbacks to cheap pulp
Comics for damned intellectuals
Issue 8, Autumn 1992
It is ten years since Françoise Mouly and Art Spiegelman impetuously founded Raw Books and Graphics. Since then, Raw, the couple’s alternative comic strip magazine, has provided an outlet for talented unknowns, given new significance to the term ‘graphic novel’, almost single-handedly reinvented one of America’s most popular indigenous artforms – all on a shoestring budget.
The designer as author
Issue 20, Spring 1996
Graphic authorship is taken for granted by many design theorists and it is gaining ground within practice, too. But the idea has received little sustained examination. What does it mean and what is really possible?
Talking pictures
Issue 11, Winter 1993
The comic book speech bubble has evolved into a highly expressive form of vernacular lettering
Graphic novels for starters
Issue 58, Winter 2005
Paul Gravett’s book is a beginner’s guide to one of the most rapidly growing regions of the book publishing world.
Springtime for Hitler and Lego
Issue 44, Summer 2002
A review of ‘Mirroring evil’ at the Jewish Museum, New York