Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel MAUS is a landmark in reckoning with the Holocaust and breakthrough in serious comic art. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize at DOC NYC 2024, ART SPIEGELMAN: DISASTER IS MY MUSE provides intimate access to the man and mind who revolutionized the art form of comics. See how he grapples with autobiography in his work, his complicated relationship with his Auschwitz-surviving father, as well as his personal struggles upon receiving success and praise for his books about the Holocaust.
MAUS and MAUS II were seminal works about the Jewish experience and the Holocaust, not only in its radical depiction in form, but also in Art’s struggle in how to tell this story through extraordinary honesty, humor and disclosure. Then, in 2022, Spiegelman found himself at the center of the book banning controversy in America, as a Tennessee school board voted to remove MAUS from schools.
DISASTER IS MY MUSE reminds us why Art and his work are crucial to coming to grips with the darkest chapter of history, anti-Semitism, and current attempts to erase the past.
Featuring:
Art Spiegelman, Robert Crumb, Aline Kominsky-Crumb, Francoise Mouly, Charles Burns, Joe Sacco, Molly Crabapple, J. Hoberman, Ken Jacobs, Najda Spiegelman, Dash Spiegelman, and MORE.
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