Art Spiegelman: Comix 101

Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus, which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents' survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. In this illustrated lecture, Spiegelman presents a chronological tour of the evolution of comics that demonstrates the range and value of this medium and shows why it should be taken seriously. The lecture will situate Spiegelman's own work in this chronology and will include discussion of the Maus books as well as In the Shadow of No Towers, a vibrant, compelling, and political work about 9/11 that was recently selected by The New York Times as one of the 100 Notable Books of 2004.

This event is sponsored by Caltech's Words Matter project.

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