Art Spiegelman

Art Spiegelman is an American comics artist, editor, and advocate for the medium of comics, best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning comic memoir, Maus.

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• "I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit."
  • After taking all the difficult art classes, Spiegelman was required to take the easy ones to obtain an arts major. He discusses here switching instead to a philosophy major. Financial Times article, 'Drawn from Memory'

• "I was asking the school shrink, 'Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis?' I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink."
  • Financial Times article, 'Drawn from Memory'

• "Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star."
  • Financial Times article, 'Drawn from Memory'

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• What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.