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 ...

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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 ...

Cartoonist Art Spiegelman's epic Holocaust graphic novel, Maus, was published 25 years ago. Spiegelman's new book, MetaMaus, explores that... In his book Breakdowns, Art Spiegelman explains how Mad ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...