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Art Spiegelman

April 2025

  • Paul Auster New York Trilogy graphic novel for Observer Books

    Graphic novel of the month
    Paul Auster’s The New York Trilogy review – a classic that will be read for decades to come

    Sketched in cinematic black and white, this illustrated interpretation of the late author’s postmodern detective novel is a ‘stone-cold masterpiece’

February 2023

  • Art Spiegelman at his studio in New York, May 2022.

    Book of the day
    Maus Now: Selected Writing, edited by Hillary Chute review – the Maus that made history

    While Philip Pullman and Adam Gopnik illuminate Art Spiegelman’s towering graphic novel, few others in this collection succeed in capturing its spark and sophistication

December 2022

  • Albie Sachs, outside the constitutional court of South Africa in Johannesburg in February 2022.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about freedom

    Authors as radically different as Julia Donaldson, John Rawls and Ayn Rand can make us appreciate the value of freedom, and the terrible jeopardy of losing it

March 2022

  • Visitors to the the exhibition Frida Kahlo: The Life of an Icon in Barcelona last year.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about suffering artists

    From Max Porter’s vision of Francis Bacon’s last days to Heather Clark’s fresh look at Sylvia Plath, these works complicate our understanding of the links between pain and art

February 2022

  • Comic book artist Art Spiegelman in 2012 at an exhibition of his work in Paris.

    Art Spiegelman on Maus and free speech: ‘Who’s the snowflake now?’

    Since his early days in the underground comix scene, Spiegelman has reveled in ‘saying the unsayable’ and subverting convention

March 2021

  • Nobel prize laureate Olga Tokarczuk.

    The Guardian view on the picture book: not just for children

    Editorial: When a Nobel-prizewinning novelist turns to illustrated fiction, it’s time to question assumptions

October 2020

  • Starlingly protean ... clockwise from top left: Valentine’s Day cover for the New Yorker,1993, Nude Self-Portrait, 1999, Raw, Self-Portrait with Maus Mask, sketchbook study for Four Mice, 1991, Lead Pipe Sunday, 1990

    Graphic artist Art Spiegelman on Maus, politics and 'drawing badly'

    Forty years on from ‘the first masterpiece in comic-book history’, the Pulitzer-winning cartoonist talks fame, switching styles and why he doesn’t want to draw Trump

October 2019

  • From the President Supervillain account on Twitter, which combines Donald Trump quotes with panels of the Marvel villain Red Skull.

    Books blog
    President Supervillain: behind the alarmingly accurate Trump-Marvel mashup

    The popular Twitter account, which puts Trump speeches into the mouth of Red Skull, is so convincing that the creator had to clarify that the president isn’t quoting the supervillain

August 2019

  • Captain America lives on … The Avengers (2012)

    Art Spiegelman: golden age superheroes were shaped by the rise of fascism

  • Donald Trump, David Shulkin, Laura Perlmutter, Isaac Perlmutter<br>FILE: President Donald Trump, left, accompanied by Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center, shakes hands with Isaac “Ike” Perlmutter, an Israeli-American billionaire, and the CEO of Marvel, right, before signing an Executive Order on “Improving Accountability and Whistleblower Protection” at the Department of Veterans Affairs, Thursday, April 27, 2017, in Washington. Also pictured is Laura Perlmutter, second from right. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

    Art Spiegelman's Marvel essay 'refused publication for Orange Skull Trump dig'

August 2018

  • Illustration from Black Dog – the Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean. Black Dog explores the work of Paul Nash, one of the most important British artists of the twentieth century, whose First World War experiences inspired him to create paintings of disturbing, lasting power.

    Further reading
    From Maus to Tamara Drewe: the 10 graphic novels everyone should read

    With Nick Drnaso’s Sabrina becoming the first graphic novel longlisted for the Man Booker prize, it’s a good time for readers to discover more

December 2016

  • Composite: Alex Wheatle and Nadja Spiegelman

    The Guardian Books podcast
    Nadja Spiegelman and Alex Wheatle - books podcast

    How life stories play out in memoir and fiction with the authors of family memoir I’m Supposed to Protect You from All This and YA award-winner Crongton Knights
    Podcast52:06

November 2016

  • Nadja Spiegelman

    Meet the author
    Nadja Spiegelman: ‘There was nothing in my family that could be agreed upon’

    Nadja Spiegelman talks about the influence of her artist father Art Spiegelman, creator of the graphic novel Maus, and her new family memoir
  • Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman at the Barbican during the London jazz festival.

    London jazz festival review – a dazzling display all across the musical spectrum

    The opening weekend of the festival featured a virtuosic set from Joshua Redman and Brad Mehldau, an audiovisual tribute to comics by Art Spiegelman and Silent Six, plus the poised 13-year-old piano prodigy Joey Alexander

    • Public Books
      History repeating: Nadja Spiegelman's painful mother/daughter memoir

    • David Walsh of Mona: on art, sex and why (gallery) size matters

    • Music blog
      London jazz festival 2016: 10 acts not to miss

December 2015

  • A frame from Adrian Tomine’s Killing and Dying, one of a number of artistically ambitious graphic novels that have come out in recent years.

    So you'd like to get into highbrow comics. Here's where to start

    From superheroes to memoirs, there’s never been a richer time for comic books. But where does one start with a genre that is exploding so quickly?

May 2015

  • Newspaper War is Declared

    Children's books
    VE Day quiz: second world war in children's fiction

  • Geoffrey Rush and Sophie Nelisse hug in a scene from The Book Thief

    Children's books
    What are the best children's books on the second world war?

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