Art Spiegelman Quotes

United States, Cartoonist
February 15, 1948

Art Spiegelman (/ˈspiːɡəlmən/; born Itzhak Avraham ben Zeev on February 15, 1948) is an 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 father of writer Nadja Spiegelman.

Also known as Editor, Comics Artist

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

Art Spiegelman
- Rock
- Star
- Cooking
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.

Art Spiegelman
- Life
- Trying
- School

There's a therapeutic aspect to all making, but the nature of working is to compress, condense, and shape stuff, not to just expunge it. It's not just an exorcism.

Art Spiegelman
- Nature
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.

Art Spiegelman
- School
- Funny
I became a philosophy major literally to understand why I should put up with this shit.

Art Spiegelman
- Up
- Why
A manifesto, a diary, a crumpled suicide note, and a still relevant love letter.

Art Spiegelman
- Suicide
What Franz Kafka was to the first half of the 20th century, Philip K. Dick is to the second half.

Art Spiegelman