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"I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit."
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Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev Spiegelman, professionally known as Art Spiegelman, is a Polish-American cartoonist, editor, and comics advocate best known for his graphic novel Maus. His work as co-editor on the comics magazines Arcade and Raw has been influential, and from 1992 he spent a decade as contributing artist for The New Yorker. He is married to designer and editor Françoise Mouly and is the fa
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"Comics seem to be cooking these days. Its like being a rock star."
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"Theres a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. Its not just an exorcism."
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"I guess I don’t subscribe to the twee school. I remember trying to lose our copy of Thomas the Tank Engine before I had to read it again. Life is a more dimensional and interesting affair than vestigially Victorian notions of childhood. I was trying to make something substantial, something to be read and reread."
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"I didnt make Maus to teach anyone anything. I wasnt making "Auschwitz for Beginners." And I do not want Maus to ever be used as a recruiting poster for the Israeli army!"
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"I was asking the school shrink, Has anyone ever told you the top of your head looks like a penis? I thought that was a really funny thing to tell a bald shrink."
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