Traditionally, magicians have been wary of sharing the secrets of their trade for fear that it would be impossible to razzle-dazzle audiences that had the lowdown about the backstage machinery that ...

Art Spiegelman shattered the conventions of comic books and Holocaust literature with the publication of “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel that depicts the Nazis as cats and the Jews as ...

A book-length interview with Art Spiegelman, saturated with sketches, notes, digressions and self-analysis, it’s an in-depth argument for the fact that there might be nothing quite so vital and ...

“A quest for ersatz verisimilitude might have pulled me further away from essential actuality as I tried to reconstruct it,” muses the author of a seminal work of literature about the Holocaust. In a ...

Twenty-five years ago, beloved comic artist and editor Art Spiegelman published Maus: A Survivor's Tale, his cult-classic comic book about the Holocaust based on the biography of Spiegelman's father, ...

Art Spiegelman needs a cigarette. He needs about 30 Camel Blue cigarettes a day, to be precise, but at the moment he needs just one, so we are sitting in the Roof Garden at the Soho House while he ...

After twenty-five years, Art Spiegelman gathers his thoughts about his prize-winning, ground-breaking graphic novel, MetaMaus (Pantheon). He talks about the difficulty of treating the Holocaust in ...

In 1972 a young American cartoonist called Art Spiegelman published a three-page comic strip about the horrific “bedtime stories” his father used to tell him “about life in the old country during the ...