Art Spiegelman

Recent articles about Art Spiegelman

Getting into good trouble

Issue 108, Spring 2025

Review

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

Review

It is a mark of how far comics have come that Yale University Press should…

Comic sans the grown-ups

Issue 74, Winter 2009

Review

There are two names responsible for bringing comics ‘out of the trash and into a…

Comic books come back with a cautious bang

Issue 36, Summer 2000

Feature

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

Feature

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.

Talking pictures

Issue 11, Winter 1993

Feature

The comic book speech bubble has evolved into a highly expressive form of vernacular lettering

The designer as author

Issue 20, Spring 1996

Feature

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?

Springtime for Hitler and Lego

Issue 44, Summer 2002

Opinion

A review of ‘Mirroring evil’ at the Jewish Museum, New York