Art Spiegelman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus is a milestone in Holocaust redemption and a breakthrough in serious comic art, but all his achievements are more remarkable and eclectic. ART SPIEGELMAN: CATASTROPHE IS MY MUSE traces his beginnings in the 1960s as the creator of the Wacky Packages trading card collection; the founder of the underground comics magazines Arcade (with Bill Griffith) and Raw (with his wife FranΓ§oise Mouly); In the Shadow of Madness, his response to 9/11, inspired by watching the attacks from his home in lower Manhattan; his controversial New Yorker covers (1993-2003), which prompted the New York Police Department to picket the magazine’s offices; and his public response to the recent ban on Maus by the Tennessee School Board. Spiegelman proves to be an eloquent guide through his provocative work, alongside contemporaries (Robert Crumb, Gary Panter) and younger cartoonists (Joe Sacco, Jerry Kraft, Molly Crabapple), inspired by Spiegelman’s unwavering confrontation with personally traumatic themes.
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