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Art Spiegelman Surviving Maus: Visualizing the Unimaginable

Tuesday, October 17 | 7:30 p.m.

Join us for a conversation with Art Spiegelman, one of the most influential figures in the comics subculture of the 1960s and 1970s, on Tuesday, October 17, 2023 at 7:30 p.m.

Spiegelman will discuss his graphic novel Maus, which explored his parents’ Holocaust experience, depicting Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus is not only Spiegelman’s best-known work, but was essential for comic art because of its unprecedented critical acclaim for what was then an underappreciated art form.Maus was the first comic book to win a Pulitzer Prize in 1992. The Wall Street Journal noted it was “the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust” and The New Yorker called it “the first masterpiece in comic book history.”

Maus has long been a source of controversy. Most recently, Spiegelman was thrust into a national debate about censorship and rising antisemitism after a Tennessee school district banned Maus from classrooms in 2022. The media attention brought the graphic novel back to the forefront and to the top of the best-seller list.

Spiegelman will also share his reflections on Arthur Szyk’s anti-Nazi political cartooning in conjunction with the Fairfield University Art Museum’s exhibition, In Real Times: Arthur Szyk: Artist and Soldier for Human Rights.

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