Art Spiegelman Quotes

born 1948 Sweden

Art Spiegelman (born February 15, 1948) 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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Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

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

The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick : Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings (1995)

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.

I didn't make Maus to teach anyone anything. I wasn't making "Auschwitz for Beginners." And I do not want Maus to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Israeli army!

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Art Spiegelman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.