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Art Spiegelman Biography

Art Spiegelman (/ˈspiːɡəlmən/; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker, where he made several high-profile and sometimes controversial covers. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the father of writer Nadja Spiegelman.

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Even on the iPad or the Kindle, when reading a book, you're rewarded for pressing a button - it's almost as if it were a Pavlovian thing. There's a little action that happens. And that there's always a little pump of adrenaline that happens. But that pump is different when you're lifting a page as if it was a curtain in a theater to show you another thing.

Reading, Book, Ipads, Pump, Kindle, Happens

The book has very specific qualities. Let's say in 2300 they discover the physical book, after having lived with the digital book for several hundred years. They'll be able to say, "Look at all the cool stuff you can have in a real book and how different it is. " The differences are manifold.

Book, Digital, Having, Real, Say, Years

On September 11 one of the messages on our answering machine was from The New Yorker saying get down here right away for a special issue we'll be doing. That seemed so irrelevant to me, considering the cataclysm. I went to my studio for a while and I was processing the news. Because when we were in the thick of it, it just felt like Mars Attacks!, Is Paris Burning?, and I had no perspective. For a while, I thought I should go down and look for bodies. At the same time, since The New Yorker was looking for images, I thought, "Well, I'm more trained to look for images than for bodies. "

Looking, Perspective, Saying, September 11, Special, Time

One way of understanding a graphic novel is that it's an ambitious comic and one way or another my comics have had ambitions. I have no problem with escapism. When I get my depressions all I want to do is escape reality.

Ambition, Reality, Understanding, Ambitions, Depressions, Problem

I know this is insane, but i somehow wish i had been in auschwitz with my parents so i could really know what they lived through! I guess it's some kind of guilt about having had an easier life than they did.

Auschwitz, Guilt, Life, Parent, Wish

It's not an accident that, while bookstores are all in a tizzy, one of the more lively and alive sections is the so-called "graphic novel" section, because those are harder to replace.

Bookstores, Alive, Graphic Novels, Replace, Section

I became a degenerate artist. My parents were shaped by their own experiences, and artists weren't so useful in the death camps.

Artist, Camps, Death, Degenerates, Parent, Useful

Right now anything made for the iPad is like performance art. I'm not interested in performance art. Comics are too hard to make to be done for such a passing blip. When it stabilizes, I'll look at it.

Art, Blip, Ipads, Looks, Right, Stabilizes

I always had more allergies toward the superhero comics than the others. I thought those were aimed more toward the people who would beat me up.

People, Superhero, Allergies, Aimed

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

Cooking, Like, Rock, Rocks, Stars

I think a lot of America turned to art and culture after Sept. 11. I know the sales of bibles went shooting up, but so did the sales of poetry. I think in a crisis one looks to one's culture, partially to give validation to why one would want that culture to survive.

Art, Thinking, Validation, Shooting, America

Sometimes I don't feel like a functioning adult

Adult, Adults, Feels, Functioning, Like, Sometimes

In reality, childhood is deep and rich. It's vital, mysterious, and profound. I remember my OWN childhood vividly; I knew terrible things, but I knew I mustn't let the adults *know* I knew. . . it would scare them.

Childhood, Deep, Profound, Reality, Vital

I always have been and will remain someone who loves real, 3D, substantial books. And I don't believe that it's a wistful, nostalgic interest like vinyl collectors. It's not the same thing.

Real, Believe, Book, Thing, Loves

To die, it's easy. But you have to struggle for life.

Die, Dies, Easy, Struggle

A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Crumpled, Diaries, Letters, Love, Note, Suicide

Well, I am not 100 percent sure of the definition of polemic, but it wasn't meant to convince anybody of anything.

Definitions, Polemics, Wells, Percent, Meant, Polemic

In 1908, you could easily earn $20 to $200 as a cartoonist. What's amazing is that it's still true!

Cartoonist, Stills, True, 200, 1908

I would say that, in the future, the book will be reserved for things that function best as a book. So, if I need a textbook that's going to be out of date because of new technological inventions, you're better off having it where you can download the supplements or the update.

Book, Future, Having, Inventions, Needs, Updates

No matter what I accomplish, it doesn't seem like much compared to surviving Auschwitz.

Accomplish, Auschwitz, Compared, Like, Matter

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